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Should brown trout in the BattenKill be eradicated?
A controversy in Vermont is in progress regarding the state's plan of
releasing around 1,000 triploid sterile rainbow trout in to the Battenkill river. The locals are up in arms that it will disrupt the naturally reproducing brown trout populations that are descendent from stocking years ago. In my own research the question that keeps tugging at me is: If the brown trout are decimating the indiginous brook trout on the eastern seaboard why are conservation groups adament about protecting them? Now, I understand that the economics of trout fishing are huge. There's a lot of money involved. But, good fishing is good fishing and, all things considered, the opportunity to catch a 16 in rainbow trout will generate as much or more fishing revenue as the difficult to fool and highly piscavorious brown trout. So why do conservation groups so vehemently protect a predator that is decimating an indiginous species? This makes no sense to me. Halfordian Golfer A cash flow runs through it |
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