Spring closures to support spawning of Rainbow trout in Colorado

Halfordian Golfer wrote:
On Mar 21, 7:37 pm, Halfordian Golfer wrote:
The Colorado Division of Wildlife ris reminding people that the
spawning tributaries of the Colorado and Roaring Fork rivers are
closed to all angling, including C&R angling.

http://wildlife.state.co.us/Fishing/

The rainbow trout was once Colorado's state trout (from 1954 to 1994).
This was changed to the indiginous and endangered Greenback Cutthroat
trout. And while the Rainbow trout is an introduces species and
threatens genetic extinction of the cutthroat trout.


Question: Should Colorado wilidlife managers (and angler) protect non-
indiginous species that threaten native species? Why/Why not?



It's not like the DOW has the choice of returning the Colorado and
Roaring Fork River drainages back to native species. This has proved
difficult enough in SMALL drainage that are isolated because of
downstream barriers. HUGE drainages like the Colorado and Roaring Fork
are impractical.

I don't have any problem with the program. It's alot better than
stocking the same species as "catchables."

Willi

On Mar 24, 8:53 am, Willi wrote:
Halfordian Golfer wrote:
On Mar 21, 7:37 pm, Halfordian Golfer wrote:
The Colorado Division of Wildlife ris reminding people that the
spawning tributaries of the Colorado and Roaring Fork rivers are
closed to all angling, including C&R angling.

http://wildlife.state.co.us/Fishing/

The rainbow trout was once Colorado's state trout (from 1954 to 1994).
This was changed to the indiginous and endangered Greenback Cutthroat
trout. And while the Rainbow trout is an introduces species and
threatens genetic extinction of the cutthroat trout.

Question: Should Colorado wilidlife managers (and angler) protect non-
indiginous species that threaten native species? Why/Why not?

It's not like the DOW has the choice of returning the Colorado and
Roaring Fork River drainages back to native species. This has proved
difficult enough in SMALL drainage that are isolated because of
downstream barriers. HUGE drainages like the Colorado and Roaring Fork
are impractical.

I don't have any problem with the program. It's alot better than
stocking the same species as "catchables."

Willi

Catchable, sub-catchable or fry...doesn't really matter if they can
grow up and cause the genetic extinction of the Colorado river
cutthroat?

What do you think would happen if there were no bag limits on non-
cutthroat species in that drainage?

What 'exactly' are we 'conserving' there?

Halfordian Golfer