River otters

[restornator]

They are doing far too well. There numbers are getting out of control and they can play heck with fish populations. When they were reintroduced I don't think the plan was thought through. They have little in the way of natural predators and nobody traps them any more so there population has skyrocketed.

Yes they are abundant at Nolin, but would you rather KFW accept new commercial fishing liscenses? As far as I know commercial fishing is illegal unless you had a liscense back in 1998. My stance is humans aren't the only fishermen on public waters.

[smashdn]

Yes they are abundant at Nolin, but would you rather KFW accept new commercial fishing liscenses? As far as I know commercial fishing is illegal unless you had a liscense back in 1998. My stance is humans aren't the only fishermen on public waters.

Application is still on the dept's website. I don't think Nolin Lake is open for commercial fishing however. But we weren't speaking of the lake proper so I don't guess I understand where you are coming from.

[Tim_T]

Yes they are abundant at Nolin, but would you rather KFW accept new commercial fishing liscenses? As far as I know commercial fishing is illegal unless you had a liscense back in 1998. My stance is humans aren't the only fishermen on public waters.

How in the heck did you make this a commercial fishing argument? But to the actual subject, you are taking what I said and spinning it. I am all for having some otters around, but much like any other species, there numbers need to be held in check and there is simply no viable option to do this. Its kind of like the pan to release wolves out west. There was no population control and now some of the elk herds have been devastated, not to mention how hard the have made things on the ranchers.