To stock or not to stock a wild trout stream. That is the question.

Jonathan Cook wrote:

Conan The Librarian wrote:


(I daresay there aren't many truly "subsistence"
anglers in the US, and none at all in ROFF)


Apparently people who investigate such matters would
disagree.

From the Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan, technical report
#3, 1997, by Lauren Lambert:

"Thirty-four percent of the individuals surveyed exhibited
characteristics of subsistence fishing. For this study,
someone displaying characteristics of subsistence fishing was
an individual who said: a) the fish caught was a primary
source of their diet, or b) the fish caught was either somewhat
or very important to their or somebody else's diet, or c) that
six or more of their meals per month were prepared from the
fish caught at the study site."

If extrapolatable, 34% of all the licensed anglers in the
US is _millions_ of subsistence anglers.

You can claim some ridiculuously high, starve if you don't
fish, definition of subsistence angling, or you can have a
meaningful definition that fisheries specialists can use
in their management of the resources. There's nothing wrong
with Tim's use of the phrase. He's more in line with the
way the specialists use it than what I'm hearing from the
rest of y'all.

Fair enough. I'm wrong. I see no mention of "recreational" anglers
though. Just how do they define them (us)?


Chuck Vance