walleye rant

[SSKY]

With the walleye that are collected on the lake, How many does it take to get eggs to support the hatchery? And, What is the cost to bring them to the point of stocking? And how would that compare to the price of stocking stripers? Just curious?

[JoeB]

John Williams, fisheries biologist in Williamsburg, can tell you the numbers of fish/eggs necessary to stock, but I would only be guessing. Walleye are hatched in jars that tumble the eggs with a very basic filtering system. The cost difference between hatching walleye vs stripers would be a push, but the fisheries folks could probably give you an exact dollar amoount. However, it's not an astronomical amount of money.

[MASBASS]

That may be true all I know is the man told me it had to do with the cost at the time and availability of the strain they use to stock is the reason they changed.

[birdstrike]

Do you mean the only FISH stocked in the lake or the only walleye stocked in the lake? Is there any evidence that the Rockastle strain fish will do any better/ worse than the Lake Erie fish. Is one easier to harvest in the nurseries? Will the competition from stripers likely limit the growth of either walleye to the 10lb range? If they are using the Dam spawners for their brood stock, are they trying to genetically isolate the lake spawners. Because they think these fish will have a better chance of natural reproduction in Cumberland??? Just asking. I want to agree with you on this one, just trying to see both sides of the argument.

Steve

[SSKY]

Both sides of the issue. I think that no one would want erie smallmouths stocked in dale hollow to prop the fishery to have bigger numbers of fish caught. The fish there are more numerous and that is the goal for the walleye on cland. So if it was done there would be more smallmouths to catch and then everyone would be happy. It would not matter about the history of the lake just more fish caught. If that was done the lake would be average and have no special intrest that it has now. The native strain walleye on cland have never been given the chance to be stocked to numbers to see if they could do the job of providing a fishery as the stripers have.

[kygorski]

If everyone wants cumberland walleye fishing to compare to Dale Hollow small mouth fishing, well the answer is rather obvious.Two fish limit.Slot size.The slot size thing works quite well in Minnesota, as long as it follows the full course, that means if you catch it, its yours. if its within the legal limits.No culling.Smaller fish are encouaged to be be kept.But that state makes a lot of money because of their walleye fishery.

[SSKY]

Quit making sense, or we or I cannot rant