Backwater Eddy
02-07-2003, 07:51 AM
FYI on gill netting on the Red River of the North.
(IMHO) Nets just may be the death of a true world class fishery if change is not pursued and implemented.
Here are two sample bites from the articles posted on the Grand Forks Harold web site, that......well.....judge for yourself folks.
If you wish to see the whole article, you will need to get them from the Grand Forks Herald (ND) web site.
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Article 1 of 110; 1090 words
Published on February 3, 2003, Page 01, Grand Forks Herald (ND)
NETTING ISSUES ENSNARE RED RIVER FISHING IN MANITOBA
Source: Carol Sanders, Winnipeg Free Press
One man's decision to string fishing nets across the Red River has recreational and commercial fishers fuming.Dozens of nets - which act like a giant strainer - have been placed in the Manitoba portion of the river between Lockport and Lake Winnipeg by an American Indian man exercising his treaty right to fish for food year-round. Located among numerous ice fishing shacks, the gill nets with 1-inch mesh trap just about anything passing through the murky waters, in which walleye from.............
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Article 2 of 110; 745 words
Published on February 3, 2003, Page 01, Grand Forks Herald (ND)
ICE, IRE AND NATIVE FISHERMEN
Source: Carol Sanders, Winnipeg Free Press
In 40-below weather, the fish freeze the instant American Indian subsistence fisherman Jack Stevenson and his friends pull them from the net near the mouth of the Red River. A 25-pound walleye, some smaller walleyes, goldeyes, channel catfish, bullheads and a sturgeon are caught in the gill net. The retired trucker let the huge walleye "breeding stock" and small sturgeon go but kept most of the rest.Net fishing under the ice on the Red is part of his and fishing partner Ralph...........
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Subsistence fishing, or systematic exploitation, judge for yourself?
Ed "Backwater Eddy" Carlson..><sUMo>
(IMHO) Nets just may be the death of a true world class fishery if change is not pursued and implemented.
Here are two sample bites from the articles posted on the Grand Forks Harold web site, that......well.....judge for yourself folks.
If you wish to see the whole article, you will need to get them from the Grand Forks Herald (ND) web site.
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Article 1 of 110; 1090 words
Published on February 3, 2003, Page 01, Grand Forks Herald (ND)
NETTING ISSUES ENSNARE RED RIVER FISHING IN MANITOBA
Source: Carol Sanders, Winnipeg Free Press
One man's decision to string fishing nets across the Red River has recreational and commercial fishers fuming.Dozens of nets - which act like a giant strainer - have been placed in the Manitoba portion of the river between Lockport and Lake Winnipeg by an American Indian man exercising his treaty right to fish for food year-round. Located among numerous ice fishing shacks, the gill nets with 1-inch mesh trap just about anything passing through the murky waters, in which walleye from.............
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Article 2 of 110; 745 words
Published on February 3, 2003, Page 01, Grand Forks Herald (ND)
ICE, IRE AND NATIVE FISHERMEN
Source: Carol Sanders, Winnipeg Free Press
In 40-below weather, the fish freeze the instant American Indian subsistence fisherman Jack Stevenson and his friends pull them from the net near the mouth of the Red River. A 25-pound walleye, some smaller walleyes, goldeyes, channel catfish, bullheads and a sturgeon are caught in the gill net. The retired trucker let the huge walleye "breeding stock" and small sturgeon go but kept most of the rest.Net fishing under the ice on the Red is part of his and fishing partner Ralph...........
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Subsistence fishing, or systematic exploitation, judge for yourself?
Ed "Backwater Eddy" Carlson..><sUMo>