Bowfishing scientific impact paper

[Gavin]

Buffalo can live over 50 years and they are native...Probably need some protection. Common Carp are invasive, kill all you want.

[tjm]

35 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Buffalo can live over 50 years and they are native...Probably need some protection. Common Carp are invasive, kill all you want.

Thing is the average angler can't tell the difference between the two and I've heard suckers called carp a thousand times over the years by guys on the creeks.

If we take conservation at all seriously then we must own that each species is important as any other species  and provide protection for all species, as it it stands the conservation department is caught up in money and popularity and has very little actual direction towards true conservation or preservation. Science is only applied when and if it serves the agenda. 

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, tjm said:

Thing is the average angler can't tell the difference between the two and I've heard suckers called carp a thousand times over the years by guys on the creeks.

I attempted to correct an MDC agent that the fish he was calling carp were indeed Buffalo.   I was unsuccessful in convincing him, he blew me off as though I was an idiot.  

[MoCarp]

2 hours ago, Gavin said:

Common Carp are invasive, kill all you want.

https://www.outdoorlife.com/articles/hunting/2016/02/embracing-9-non-native-and-invasive-species-we-love-hunt-and-fish/