Muskies to be Stocked in Pelican Lake after Judge Rejects Temporary Restraining Order

[camoman]

http://m.startribune.com/minnesota-legislature-declares-war-on-muskies/477180523/

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Minnesota Legislature declares war on muskies



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Ingebrigtsen’s bill is co-authored by Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-Nisswa, and has bipartisan support from Sen. Tom Bakk, D-Cook, the previous Senate majority leader. It calls for muskie-stocking prohibitions, liberal harvest of muskies and a new muskie study.
Here’s what Ingebrigtsen’s bill proposes:
• Stop DNR from introducing muskies to waters not previously stocked with the fish. Any savings realized from the ban must be used for walleye stocking.
• Force DNR to drop its statewide, 54-inch minimum size limit for keeping a muskie. On “nonmuskellunge’’ waters, anglers could keep any muskie 20 inches or longer. The term “nonmuskellunge” applies to waters where “muskellunge are not indigenous’’ or where they are stocked by the DNR.
 • Allow spearing of muskies on “nonmuskellunge’’ waters.
• Empower counties to dictate what species of fish the DNR can stock within county boundaries.

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• Impose a five-year moratorium on the DNR against stocking muskies anywhere in Otter Tail County.
• The DNR must convene a stakeholder group “to examine the effect of muskellunge’’ and spend $50,000 on a related study.
The legislation is friendly to an anti-muskie movement in Otter Tail County, one of the places where muskie fishing first took hold in Minnesota in the 1960s. Two years ago, county residents successfully campaigned to place Otter Tail County off limits to the DNR’s once-ambitious muskie stocking expansion plan.

Sure, if each county wants to employ a team of educated fisheries biologists. Otherwise, they can suck it.

 

[lunkerslayer]

If this new policy becomes legal there is going to be a drastic shortage of water softener salt. Going to be a lot of pickled mushky in the near future, I wonder how many jars of pickled mushky you can get out of a 4 footer. #$%^&>