walleye rant

[JoeB]

The difference is that without stocking, stripers would be completely gone from Cland in a few years, walleye would not as they do spawn successfully and the stockings are supplimental. What would a walleye hybrid do?? I don't know. Maybe a good thing, but I don't know. The geneticists say that the rockcastle fish is an isolated population and that the strain is pure. I'll have to take their word for it. However, I would describe that egg source as anything but "easy".

[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

[SSKY]

thanks for your input Joe B. I really would like this discussion to continue and be civil even if I can't keep my smartO comments to myself. The stripers, there are a plenty, What does it cost each year to get them to stock? and what is their "source"?

[JoeB]

I am not sure, but I think I recall that the striper eggs come from South Carolina. I wouldn't swear to that in court though. I can't give you a dollar amount on what the hatchery costs are, but it's not a huge amount of money. Striper stockings this coming year will be bumped up to 7 fish per acre, and it has nothing to do with cost, but increased pressure on the fishery. Walleye will remain at 4 or 5 fish per acre, plus natural reproduction.

[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.