Biologist sums up trout expectations for 2010

["W"]

[QUOTE=eman;134642]He's right weather you want to believe it or not.
I had a great time talking to one of the scientest that studies coastal errosion and we both had the same thoughts .
Louisiana may have waited to long to really do anything about our loss of wet lands.
The only thing that would REALLY help would be to wipe out all the levees below New orleans and let the river build up marsh.
The ammount of trout we have is in direct correlation w/ the ammount of marsh (nursery grounds ) we have.
As the marsh erodes it makes the water more fertile for the trout spawn.
But at some point the ammount of marsh we lose will affect the trout population negativly.
Don't know how to make them pretty graphs but if you draw a diagonal X ,
the top left is marsh errosion. The bottom left is trout recruitment .
marsh erodes ,trout population goes up
all of a sudden at a certian point in the process the flip occurs
instead of marsh errosion helping it now becomes the problem .
now the top right is marsh errosion and the bottom right is the decline
in our trout stocks. Need more evidence look at florida and texas.[/QUOTE]


Im not from New Orleans and Hurrican katrina only cost me Tax Money and Insurance so I really dont care about that area. That is for the guys who fish it to protect.

Our area has took hits from Rita(Never Happen Hurricane) and IKE( When was IKE) ......

our estuary is healty

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by "W"

Our area has took hits from Rita(Never Happen Hurricane) and IKE( When was IKE) ......

our estuary is healty

yeah and you also have a 15 trout limit while the rest of the state has 25....i wonder why?

[PUREBAY2200]

Originally Posted by meaux fishing

yeah and you also have a 15 trout limit while the rest of the state has 25....i wonder why?

15 fish limit is to keep the numbers up and maintain bigger trout. Has nothing to do with the availablity of trout in the area. It's all about conservation and management.