DaveP
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I'd almost be in favor of a moratorium on channel catfish so's people can only take blues and flats, but i dont think it's practical.
i personally let go all the channels i catch
They're not native either
I'd almost be in favor of a moratorium on channel catfish so's people can only take blues and flats, but i dont think it's practical.
i personally let go all the channels i catch
The folks who make Old Bay should be developing a catfish cake recipe and sending it to every seafood restaurant in the state. Pre-mixed boxes of Old Bay infused breading with a recipe for catfish nuggets could be shipped to stores. MD politicians showing up at fish fry dinners...
The irony is that they WERE commercially viable and there was a huge market for them, then the state changed the rules and ended it. They've since changed them back, but they let a lot of time go and lots of population growth
They don't devour everything like blues, and they've been here long enough to be honorary native, like smallmouth bassThey're not native either
That could be...I don't remember all the details, just the gist and the outcomeIt was a USDA/ FDA mess brought to you by politicians from Southern catfish farming states, to protect their own states' businesses from foreign imports.
They don't devour everything like blues, and they've been here long enough to be honorary native, like smallmouth bass
Here's a related article on a western state that monetizes catch of invasives. They offer $10 per fish.DNR doesn't have the budget for that. That funding would have to come from MGA. Besides, some species will reproduce faster than you can get rid of them. Look at Grass Carp. Snakeheads too.
I listened to a podcast about the catfish problem in the bay and one of the takeaways was there's no processing plant nearby and it costs too much for the fisherman to transport them.Why not go the whole Perdue route?
Prepackaged, preprepped, ready for the oven, nuggets and catfish " fingers".
One of my brothers was working on the processing equipment for that over 30 years ago, for an.outfit in Louisiana
I listened to a podcast about the catfish problem in the bay and one of the takeaways was there's no processing plant nearby and it costs too much for the fisherman to transport them.
there's a scientific difference between non native and invasive. Most all game fish here are non native but are treated as native because they are not invasive. invasive means they are taking the place of other species. BC do this. Channel, LM and SM bass do not do this. "Not invasive" would probably be a better term than "Honorary native".So what year you giving honorary native status to bluecats?
Cause they're not going anywhere.
LOL, I released all.channels and whites too, but only because they don't taste as good to me
$1.56M is four years of Freddy Gray payout/off. I know where I would rather have the dollars go. I won't go any further on budget hits as I pretty durn sure you and I have congruent thoughts...Here's a related article on a western state that monetizes catch of invasives. They offer $10 per fish.
Fishermen caught 156k of the fish, which amounts to $1.56 million in payouts. And these are little fish, not 30-50 lb catfish. It would be a big budget hit.
there's a scientific difference between non native and invasive. Most all game fish here are non native but are treated as native because they are not invasive. invasive means they are taking the place of other species. BC do this. Channel, LM and SM bass do not do this. "Not invasive" would probably be a better term than "Honorary native".
Our only real native gamefish in MD is the fallfish
It's only my major in college...what do I know?There may be cultural, financial, environmental, and 87 other differences between what you consider non native and invasive species, but scientific ain't one of them.