On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:19:30 -0400, jeff wrote:

wrote:

Hello Tim,


1) What specifically would you do in Colorado to begin this
methodology?


How would the Best Practice Angling Method concept guide further tackle
restrictions, if any, in Colorado? I know Colorado angling by
reputation only so bear that in mind.

Public salmonid fisheries facing overharvesting and/or congestion
problems would likely benefit from a bait ban, but would unlikely
benefit from a fly fishing only restriction.

In the case of privately owned salmonid fisheries. a flyfishing only
restriction would make the owner the most money. I would probably
suggest to an owner that the fishery be posted and advertised as fly
fishing only but that paying artificial lure anglers be allowed to ply
the waters, space and reputation issues permitting.


2) Have you ever considered mandatory kill-then-quit regulations?


Not formally as in a written piece, but I have fished under those
regulations in Quebec Atlantic salmon streams. *Mandatory*
kill-then-quit regulations are feasible in a tightly managed situation
like the ZECs, provincial parks and state-managed wildlife reserves of
Quebec. Otherwise, they promise difficulties in typically
passively-managed North American public fisheries due to monitoring and
enforcement issues. I believe *voluntary* harvest-then-quit and/or
*voluntary* catch-and-release limits would be more cost effective and
ultimately more effective. Anglers have proven themselves enormously
successful in supporting self-enforcing conventions in not all but many
situations.

If cherry-picking the catch for harvest by holding fish in live wells
and releasing them as larger fish show up, for example, is your driving
concern, then I'm not sure what to propose though I can clearly
understand why one would want to discourage that kind of behaviour. In
a similar vein, catching and releasing hundreds of trout in one day is
something else we might want to effectively discourage.

Thanks to RalphH for his accurate and informative introduction. This
paper will be subject to further peer review. If you feel like citing,
please do, but contact me in case there have been major changes or a
published version is available at the time. All comments and
suggestions would be most welcome. regards -Erik




wrote:

Ralph recently seeded a thread:

"The Future of the Management of Recreational Angling" in which he
posted:

The world of angling management is moving well beyond simple notions of
harvest; catch and release and so forth.

Eric Poole, who is an angler and author of some repute, is an economist and
statistician by profession and currently a PHD candidate in Economics at
Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. His thesis is about developing
best practice management techniques for fishing (both commercial and
recreational) and I think some of his ideas will shake the angling world in
a few years. In some respects they have a sympathetic resonance with some of
the Halfordian Golfer's "naive" ideas but are much more sophisitcated.

For example, on some of the local web based discussion boards Eric has
talked about "quality" issues and has a strong opinion that the only way to
address these on certain waters is by limited entry (i.e. by lottery or by
access by payment)

He has also addressed bugbear talked about on ng, tackle restriction and
when if at all is it right to restrict tackle. He has developed a
mathematically based model to justify doing so. Have a look at this:

http://www.sfu.ca/~epoole/BPAM_E_Poole_Jun06.pdf

His web site: http://www.sfu.ca/~epoole

watch this site for additional work on his thesis

I would like to ask Mr. Poole a couple of questions to help fully
understand BPAM.

1) What specifically would you do in Colorado to begin this
methodology?
and
2) Have you ever considered mandatory kill-then-quit regulations?

Thanks very, very much. I'm looking forward to a great discussion.

Sincerely,

Halfordian Golfer
A cash flow runs through it.



uh oh, erik must not have gotten the memo on "convention" and "normal"
posting requirements...g

jeff (lot of scrolling or page down work to get here, eh?)

Not to mention that if you use the slider to scroll up and down rapidly,
it seems to fascinate the housepets...

Hey, looking for the good where I might stumble upon it,
R