Threats to the Future of Lake Winnipeg

Duckslayer100 · Mar 31, 2016

Long-ish video (about 30 minutes) but very informative on the future of the Big Windy. For anyone who slobbers over sumo greenbacks, you owe it to yourself to get edjumucated. Some serious threats are on the horizon:

Kurtr · Mar 31, 2016

what is the short break down

Duckslayer100 · Mar 31, 2016

Kurtr said:
what is the short break down

Super short breakdown: Invasive species (i.e. zebra mussels) and Eutrophication.

Kurtr · Mar 31, 2016

Duckslayer100 said:
Super short breakdown: Invasive species (i.e. zebra mussels) and Eutrophication.

that sucks

Jigaman · Mar 31, 2016

Duckslayer100 said:
Super short breakdown: Invasive species (i.e. zebra mussels) and Eutrophication.

Did you listen to the whole thing? They barely even touched on those two topics. It was mainly about how the commercial fishery is raping the lake. The economic value from sport fisherman is 3 to 4 times greater than from the commercial fishery. However, 3/4 to 7/8 of the walleye taken from the lake are done by the commercial fishery. Basically, this cant continue or the lake is screwed. Anybody who enjoys this unbelievable fishery should take the time and watch this video.

Kurtr · Mar 31, 2016

Jigaman said:
Did you listen to the whole thing? They barely even touched on those two topics. It was mainly about how the commercial fishery is raping the lake. The economic value from sport fisherman is 3 to 4 times greater than from the commercial fishery. However, 3/4 to 7/8 of the walleye taken from the lake are done by the commercial fishery. Basically, this cant continue or the lake is screwed. Anybody who enjoys this unbelievable fishery should take the time and watch this video.

that supper sucks

DirtyMike · Mar 31, 2016

What I heard is there's going to be a new world record in a couple years. Huff, keep that tracked rig rolling.

johnr · Mar 31, 2016

Are there native Americans in Canada?
Is this a tribal thing?
Do they call Indians in Canada native Americans?
If an American moves to Africa, do they call that person an American African regardless of the persons color?

Muzzytipped · Mar 31, 2016

johnr said:
Are there native Americans in Canada?
is this a tribal thing?
do they call Indians in Canada native Americans?
If an American moves to Africa, do the call that person an American African regardless of the persons color?

All that deep thought is going to hurt your head.

Jigaman · Mar 31, 2016

I think they call them selves "first nations" or something like that. There are plenty of indians up there that net fish both personally and commercially but I think the majority of the comm fisherman are white. I could be wrong though.

eyexer · Mar 31, 2016

we'll just add it to the list of lakes destroyed by the net

huffranger · Mar 31, 2016

there was a cat print in my processed chedder

Captain Ahab · Mar 31, 2016

This was a very well put together presentation. The guy did a great job.

Summary:

* The lake has an obsolete commercial fishery management system.(multi-specie quota system which means the weight quota can be filled with one specie or multiple. i.e. they can take all walleye or a combination of walleye, whitefish, sauger, drum, etc). The walleye are worth more so most of the quota is used with walleye at this point.

* The amount of walleye taken via commercial fishing makes up 75-88% of the annual harvest(the remainder is the angler harvest). This harvest is also unsustainable or the system will eventually crash.

* The angling economy generates 3 to 4 times the amount of revenue as the commercial fisherman, but uses significantly less resource.

* There needs to be agreement between the 1. Commercial fishermen 2. Indigenous people(indians to the laymen) 3. Angling community to change the course. This sounds very difficult to do at this point because the commercial guys are going to fight to keep pulling the same fish quotas.

If you want more, I suggest you watch the video. It filled out my lunch break nicely.

Kickemup · Mar 31, 2016

Captain said it great

dean nelson · Mar 31, 2016

God it got annoying listening to him calling them pickerel! You would think a biologist would use correct names not a local ones that are put on the wrong species!

Duckslayer100 · Mar 31, 2016

dean nelson said:
God it got annoying listening to him calling them pickerel! You would think a biologist would use correct names not a local ones that are put on the wrong species!

They call walleye "pickeral" up in them thar parts, and all the locals know them as such. If he went through the whole video saying "wall-eyed pike" or "walleye" they'd probably look at him cockeyed. Given the audience (all Manitobans) it was appropriate.

But I'm sure you knew that.

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Jigaman said:
Did you listen to the whole thing? They barely even touched on those two topics. It was mainly about how the commercial fishery is raping the lake. The economic value from sport fisherman is 3 to 4 times greater than from the commercial fishery. However, 3/4 to 7/8 of the walleye taken from the lake are done by the commercial fishery. Basically, this cant continue or the lake is screwed. Anybody who enjoys this unbelievable fishery should take the time and watch this video.

Ehem, he specifically asked for a short breakdown. I literally repeated the first 30 seconds. If he wanted a more thorough explanation, well, Captain Ahab put it pretty nicely.

snow · Mar 31, 2016

Hmmmmm,I see slots in the future... Been there done that along with reduced daily limits of pickeral.

Enslow · Mar 31, 2016

In canada walleyes are called pickerel.

Trip McNeely · Mar 31, 2016

other than a legislative option which sounds like a drawn out court battled nightmare the best course of action may be to stop eating commercial walleye. tell everyone u know the circumstances and to do the same. tell any restraunt owners who will listen to replace walleye with another fish on the menu. the only way to capitalistically stop the commercial fishing is to stop the demand. i love eating restraunt walleye as much as anyone but i will start having the salmon or cod instead

SDMF · Mar 31, 2016

Enslow said:
In canada walleyes are called pickerel.

In Canada pickerel are called pickerel.

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