Post by yihunt on Jun 27, 2010 15:58:15 GMT -4
The website protectyourwaters.com, developed to help anglers and boaters stop the spread of invasive species, is reminding fishermen that they should not dump leftover bait into the waters they fish at the end of the day.
Instead, it suggests killing minnows by dumping them on land far from the water's edge. Crawfish should be crushed and nightcrawlers dumped into deep water.
The fishermen who target Peters Township Reservoir #2 in Washington County didn't do that, it seems. When biologists surveyed the lake's fish populations a few weeks ago, they found, for the first time, gizzard shad.
Native to some waters in the state, gizzard shad can now be found statewide because of being transported from lake to lake by bait fishermen. That can be bad.
Those in the Fish and Boat Commission's area 8 office said that, in Peters Township Reservoir #2 in particular, the shad are competing with the panfish for food and depressing their numbers.
"The PFBC strongly encourages anglers not to release live bait into a lake when done fishing to prevent the spread of undesirable or Aquatic Invasive Species. The PFBC also discourages transfer of any fishes from one public water body to another as serious negative fish population impacts could occur," reads a commission report on the survey.
The first brown trout eggs hatched in a Pennsylvania hatchery were those acquired from Germany and raised at Corry in 1886. Rainbow trout were first stocked in Pennsylvania in the Susquehanna River in the late 1880s. The commission finally had the capability to produce its own rainbow and brown trout eggs in 1938.
Want to know facts like that and more?
If so, check out the "History of the Management of Trout Fisheries in Pennsylvania" on the Fish and Boat Commission's website. Available as a PDF file, the publication was just updated this month.
It details everything from the start of trout stocking in the state to management of wild and stocked populations today. There's lots of information on current regulations, too.
Instead, it suggests killing minnows by dumping them on land far from the water's edge. Crawfish should be crushed and nightcrawlers dumped into deep water.
The fishermen who target Peters Township Reservoir #2 in Washington County didn't do that, it seems. When biologists surveyed the lake's fish populations a few weeks ago, they found, for the first time, gizzard shad.
Native to some waters in the state, gizzard shad can now be found statewide because of being transported from lake to lake by bait fishermen. That can be bad.
Those in the Fish and Boat Commission's area 8 office said that, in Peters Township Reservoir #2 in particular, the shad are competing with the panfish for food and depressing their numbers.
"The PFBC strongly encourages anglers not to release live bait into a lake when done fishing to prevent the spread of undesirable or Aquatic Invasive Species. The PFBC also discourages transfer of any fishes from one public water body to another as serious negative fish population impacts could occur," reads a commission report on the survey.
The first brown trout eggs hatched in a Pennsylvania hatchery were those acquired from Germany and raised at Corry in 1886. Rainbow trout were first stocked in Pennsylvania in the Susquehanna River in the late 1880s. The commission finally had the capability to produce its own rainbow and brown trout eggs in 1938.
Want to know facts like that and more?
If so, check out the "History of the Management of Trout Fisheries in Pennsylvania" on the Fish and Boat Commission's website. Available as a PDF file, the publication was just updated this month.
It details everything from the start of trout stocking in the state to management of wild and stocked populations today. There's lots of information on current regulations, too.