Cumberland sturgeon

[mhall]

>No, I see no reason not to as i am a walleye fishermen and I
>like it. I see no reason not to have the best fishery possible
>that can exist and that would include the native fish that
>were here before the lake existed. Go to your library and look
>at the article from KY afield winter 2001 and then look at the
>cover photo on page 16. Those fish have never happened on lake
>Erie ever,should i keep it up yes,will i stop,probably not,
>sorry for the posts but they will keep on coming I do not get
>tired ,just don't read them.

Here's my point, I appreciate your passion for the fish you desire and admire anyone who want's to get involved and help to improve it. However complaining to US, a bunch of guys on a computer web site discussion board will NEVER help your case. You need to get going with some KDFWR officers and biologist to help make a difference, have you ever thought of that before? Moaning and complaining on this site every three or four weeks about the same ole conspiracy theory isn't helping your walleye. Just my 2 cents.

[SSKY]

They like the status quo,it is easy to keep what we have now it would a great effort to restore the genectics of the native fish to their native waters. Folks from the KDFWR have posted here and said so. It ain't no conspiracy theory just fact. Why make any effort to stock native walleye in lakes that do not have the same conditions from where they are native which is being done and not try to stock them from where they are native? and not stock the non native strain in the same water. Again I would refer you to the KY Afield article winter 2001 page 16. In that article an effort was made to create a hatchery to produce the river fish and at that time it was not possible with the rudimentary technology and very limited money. That would not seem to be a problem now with the advanced technology of the biologists and now the ability to produce native strain fish to stock lakes such as wood creek. It would seem to be a simple step to produce the native strain to stock in Cumberland from where they came from would it not? We have been told that the two strains do not interbreed so that should not be an issue. The northern strain has been stocked for Many years and make their way to the upper reaches of the south fork and one would be foolish to say they have not done so up the rockcastle. So stock the southern strain in the lake and let the northern strain peter off as they seem not to support their population unless there is suplemental stocking. Just my 2 cents and this is the best forum to see any action.

[JoeB]

Who told you the two strains would not interbreed? Someone on a public message board? The biologist in charge of the walleye program got on this board and tried to address your last rant, and you didn't bring up one issue or ask one question. Why? Why do you insist on whining to the people on this board about walleye genetics, when not one of them has any ability to change the walleye program?

[SSKY]

The last biologist post that I can recall said that the northern strain and the remnants up the rockcastle do not interbreed. So if that was not true and they can in fact interbreed the strain for natvie walleye is gone/lost,the previous info was posted on this website.If that is true, what is the stocking effort in wood creek for?or planned to do?

[SSKY]

And then again tell us why there is even an effort in non native still water?

[JoeB]

He did not say that they could not interbreed, he said they had not done so. That was the purpose of the dna testing. Again, why didn't you ask the man in charge these questions instead of people on a public message board????? Why didn't you ask him about Wood Ck lake???????

[know1]

I didn't realize "LAKE" Cumberland was their native waters.

[SSKY]

Ok fine, then i will ask the big question again, If there are enough native walleye that have been propagated which appears can be done to stock a lake where they will likely fail, not in the river system from where they came from It would seem simple to me to stock those fish in the waters that they were native. That makes simple sense to me, does it not?The native sauger are still around in the lake so I would have no doubt that the native walleye could exist if stocked in the numbers that are now stocked and we now seem to have a brood stock to do so if we can stock wood creek. ??