Norteno Report post Posted January 14, 2017 Copy/paste from Facebook Please share if you fish in AZ!!! If you ever want to catch a brown trout at Lee's Ferry you better get up there fast before they're all gone. The National Park Service has issued a brown trout removal, with no public discussion or input allowed to my knowledge. They laid the dirty work of slaying all these brown trout, and a few rainbows as you can see as incidental kill, on the hands of the GCMRC who are currently studying the rainbow trout population at Lee's Ferry on the Colorado River in Northern Arizona. https://www.facebook.com/dave.trimble.9/posts/1861282740566743 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trphyhntr Report post Posted January 14, 2017 Pathetic Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
452b264 Report post Posted January 14, 2017 Pathetic MAKES ME SICK! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest oneshot Report post Posted January 14, 2017 Removing the Browns to re-stock with Rainbows??? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZ8 Report post Posted January 14, 2017 Removing the Browns to re-stock with Rainbows??? No. To save the humpback chub. That's the NPS position. Doesn't matter the chub is 80 miles downstream and no data to support their theory. G'ment at its best! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest oneshot Report post Posted January 14, 2017 Removing the Browns to re-stock with Rainbows??? No. To save the humpback chub. That's the NPS position. Doesn't matter the chub is 80 miles downstream and no data to support their theory. G'ment at its best! Speachless... besides this thought... Da faccc??? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trphyhntr Report post Posted January 14, 2017 Removing the Browns to re-stock with Rainbows??? No. To save the humpback chub. That's the NPS position. Doesn't matter the chub is 80 miles downstream and no data to support their theory. G'ment at its best! to appease bleeding heart tree huggers who never even contribute $5 to wildlife. makes me sick. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZ8 Report post Posted January 14, 2017 USGS: "Factors contributing to the increase of humpback chub in Grand Canyon are hard to determine. However, scientists believe that both human-caused and natural events have taken place that may have improved conditions for humpback chub, including experimental water releases from Glen Canyon Dam, removal of nonnative fish through mechanical removal near the Little Colorado River confluence, and drought-induced warming of the Colorado River. GCMRC, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Arizona Game and Fish Department scientists will continue to monitor the Grand Canyon population of humpback chub, in order to identify the conditions associated with recent improvements in population and recruitment trends." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HyNoon Report post Posted January 14, 2017 Wow..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
forepaw Report post Posted January 14, 2017 The USGS summary is referring to the Little Colorado confluence which is many miles downstream. The water conditions at LF are known to be poor for survival and reproduction of native warm water species like the humpback chub. So something else might be going on - possibly related to the tree-hugger enviro-whacko agenda, possibly not. The AZGFD fisheries person for that area can provide an update. forepaw Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big Browns Report post Posted January 14, 2017 Unfortunately it doesn't surprise me!!!! Game and Fish has been making poor choices regarding az fisheries for YEARS!!!!!! 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trphyhntr Report post Posted January 15, 2017 Unfortunately it doesn't surprise me!!!! Game and Fish has been making poor choices regarding az fisheries for YEARS!!!!!! why do they hate quality fish so bad? big pike in ashurst, kill them big smallies in willow springs, kill them big trout in lees ferry, kill them 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZ8 Report post Posted January 15, 2017 This is not a local issue. It's the Fed's. The Department of Interior is running this show! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trphyhntr Report post Posted January 15, 2017 This is not a local issue. It's the Fed's. The Department of Interior is running this show! I hate my handlers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FancyRedneck Report post Posted January 15, 2017 Removing the Browns to re-stock with Rainbows??? No matter how many rainbows they try putting in at the ferry it will be a disaster…. They have done it before and it didn't work so lets do it again ??? Makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately it doesn't surprise me!!!! Game and Fish has been making poor choices regarding az fisheries for YEARS!!!!!! According to the FB post this was done by the NPS through the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. But in all fairness is there a big difference between Mame and Squish and the NPS? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
