[vmfa] Re: Managing our fisheries
- From: "Kevin Frankeberger" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "k_frankeberger@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: "vmfa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vmfa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 23:02:02 +0000 (UTC)
Ron and all:
Like you, I was a tad surprised per damage done by Northern Pike but I sure
understand how the eco-system can get messed up when us mankind introduces
non-native species.
Do pardon my memory but I think as a young man out on Lake Erie Walleye fishing
we'd run into and catch a Northern Pike from time to time. Don't they have
teeth or something very similar? Also, aren't Northern Pike what folk are
fishing for when ice fishing on the Great Lakes?
Thanks for any education coming my way! LOL
Kevin
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Subject: [vmfa] Re: Managing our fisheries
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{}#yiv6425183397 Kevin, I didn’t realize the problem Northern Pike was causing
in your area of the country. We loved to fish for northern pike when I lived in
Michigan. They are a good eating fish, and they are an exceptionally excellent
fish to smoke. Many people travel to the remote areas of Canada just to fish
for northern pike. They are fun to catch. They can be pretty ferocious
fighters. Ron
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Kevin Frankeberger (Redacted sender "k_frankeberger@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:51 PM
To: vmfa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vmfa] Managing our fisheries Dear all: Our list has been quiet as I
guess we all wait for spring and getting "out there" once again. Below is a
news release from WA State's dept. of Fish and Wildlife. Of course, since I
live in WA state, I "get it" all but perhaps others, who live without hatchery
influences, tribal treaties and pressures from surrounding states and Canada,
this might be interesting reading. My editorial statement is that the more
"man" tries to help, sometimes we simply screw it up more so then, like the
release below, decades later we have to spend tons of resources to do what
mother nature had intended in the first place. sigh Best, Kevin WDFW NEWS
RELEASE
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091
http://wdfw.wa.gov/ Contacts: Bruce Bolding, WDFW, 360-902-8417
John Whalen, WDFW, 509-892-7861
Jason Olson, KNRD, 509-447-7290 Battle against invasive northern pike
will resume despite dwindling numbers SPOKANE - State and tribal fish managers
are winning the battle against invasive northern pike on a section of the Pend
Oreille River in northeast Washington, but they don't expect to declare victory
anytime soon. For the fourth straight year, crews from the Kalispel Tribe
Natural Resources Department (KNRD) will use gill nets to remove non-native
pike from Box Canyon Reservoir and work with the Washington Department of Fish
and Wildlife (WDFW) to monitor the results. As in previous years, the netting
operation will run five days per week through March and April, even though fish
managers estimate they have already removed more than 90 percent of the
northern pike from the reservoir. "Northern pike are voracious predators that
pose a significant threat to native and game fish species," said Bruce Bolding,
WDFW warmwater fish program manager. "We can't stop these fish from moving into
Washington waters from Idaho, but we're going to do everything we can to keep
their numbers as low as possible." A key goal is to keep northern pike from
moving downstream from the Pend Oreille River into the Columbia River, where
they could affect salmon and steelhead populations, Bolding said. Surveys
conducted by WDFW and KNRD between 2004 and 2011 documented a rapid increase in
the number of pike in Box Canyon Reservoir and a significant decline in
abundance of other fish species. Bolding said gillnetting during early spring
has proven to be the most effective method of reducing northern pike. Between
2012 and 2014, more than 16,000 fish (38,000 pounds) were removed by netting.
In addition, anglers harvested a total of 334 northern pike during
"PikePalooza" fishing derbies sponsored by KNRD, which offered more than
$20,000 in cash and prizes over the past three years. Jason Olson, KNRD
Fisheries Conservation Program Manager, said the tribe will not conduct similar
fishing derbies this year, because the numbers of northern pike have been
reduced so far. "We expect sport angler catch rates for northern pike in Box
Canyon Reservoir to remain low," Olson said. "However, bass fishing can be
exceptional, and populations of brown trout and panfish are showing signs of
rebounding." State and tribal fishery managers encourage anglers to harvest as
many northern pike as they can from both Box Canyon and Boundary reservoirs.
Under state law, any northern pike that is caught must be killed before it is
removed from the area in which it was taken. While the Box Canyon Reservoir has
the state's largest population of northern pike, anglers have also reported
catching them in the Columbia River just north of the Canada border, near
Northport and Kettle Falls, and in the Spokane River from Lake Coeur d'Alene in
Idaho to Long Lake in Spokane County. Bolding said problems with northern pike
started with illegal releases of the fish into the Flathead, Bitterroot and
Clark Fork river systems in Montana, where they migrated downstream into
Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille and into Washington. For more information about
northern pike in Washington and annual summaries of the project see
http://wdfw.wa.gov/ais/esox_lucius/ .
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