Prohibit Trophy Fishing Of Iucn Threatened Species?

[Tim Smith]

First thing, the common carp is no more invasive that the ringneck peasant or the brown trout and you could throw in the Michigan chinook and the brook and smallmouth in the west if you were so inclined . Actually you could throw in the rainbow in Missour. It doesn't always revolve around world numbers because any time You remove a native population and create a vacumn you change the balance and that can be a negative.

In the case of the IUCN, it's strictly a global picture for these levels of threatened and endangered status. Or at least I thought it was. Still rather shocked that carp from anywhere could have made the list.

All those things you listed are invasive, Wayne. A couple of centuries is barely a heartbeat in ecological time. You can go down the list and with the possible exception of Lake Michigan chinook, you can tick off the names of multiple valuable native species that are being displaced and pressured by the invasives you named.

[Wayne SW/MO]

It's hard to be critical of the Michigan venture given that it was to replace a fish gone extinct and to control a couple an unwanted invasive.

The difference between a length and girth measue and weighing shouldn't be that inprtant to the average sportsman.Killing a fish to simply weight it doesn really seem realistic.