Spotted Sea Trout Spawn

["W"]

Originally Posted by "W"

If you keep your estuary healthy,your trout population will remain healthy....Its 2 + 2 math...

What is going to kill Big Lake in the long run is our controlled marsh. When you interrupt mother nature you are bound to destroy something! Rita was a sign that no matter what man builds she can take away any time!

Originally Posted by cmdrost

You're just one big walking/talking contradiction....

W Case 1 - trout population is fine and you can't out fish it with a rod & reel

W Case 2 - quoted above


There is a big reason the lake isn't like what it used to be back in the days you are talking about.

1 - MUCH more pressure from fisherman
2 - MUCH loss of marsh land

Like the article and boatdriver said.....those 2 combinations aren't a good thing.

I said this above already...... Good Try Salty Jr

[cmdrost]

woah!! I must be moving up in the world....

a follow up email from the author of the original article about this same issue:

As I've reported in the past, many fisheries scientists believe coastal erosion to date may actually be priming the pump in terms of specks and reds because it improves the quality of habitat for many forage species (shrimp, menhaden, sardines, silversides, benthic community, etc), by increasing plankton and other invertebrate production, and increases the total acres of edge habitat important to young speckled trout. But eventually the growing acres of open saltwater will begin to dilute, then overwhelm the impact of the descreasing amount of marsh habitat eroding. They surmise that by the time we record a "trend" (which takes several years) in declining production the damage will have been so severe there will be little we can do about it. And, unfortuantely the rate of decline will only accelerate until it reaches a new balance with the remaining habitat. At current trend of wertlands loss being accelerated by sea level rise, by the middle of this century we will have very little habitat left. Louisiana fish production will drop to what we see now in Texas and Florida, or even below. You can get a few of the measureable sea level rise to mdate at this NOAA site. www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html

Thanks for reading the TP, and sharing your thoughts.

[boatdriver]

Originally Posted by cmdrost

woah!! I must be moving up in the world....

a follow up email from the author of the original article about this same issue:

As I've reported in the past, many fisheries scientists believe coastal erosion to date may actually be priming the pump in terms of specks and reds because it improves the quality of habitat for many forage species (shrimp, menhaden, sardines, silversides, benthic community, etc), by increasing plankton and other invertebrate production, and increases the total acres of edge habitat important to young speckled trout. But eventually the growing acres of open saltwater will begin to dilute, then overwhelm the impact of the descreasing amount of marsh habitat eroding. They surmise that by the time we record a "trend" (which takes several years) in declining production the damage will have been so severe there will be little we can do about it. And, unfortuantely the rate of decline will only accelerate until it reaches a new balance with the remaining habitat. At current trend of wertlands loss being accelerated by sea level rise, by the middle of this century we will have very little habitat left. Louisiana fish production will drop to what we see now in Texas and Florida, or even below. You can get a few of the measureable sea level rise to mdate at this NOAA site. www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html

Thanks for reading the TP, and sharing your thoughts.

This is very, very scary. For our state to be in the same grouping of Texas and Florida about trout populations is troubling, to me anyways. We all know about the TX limits and know about FL's problems too. I hope it never comes to this here. Personally, most of y'all are a little older than me, so it may not affect that generation, but at the rate of land loss and water levels increasing, younger anglers and my children will definitely see the actual damage. I just hope we can find some way to alter or slow the process of "what could be" on years to come.

["W"]

Originally Posted by cmdrost

woah!! I must be moving up in the world....

a follow up email from the author of the original article about this same issue:

As I've reported in the past, many fisheries scientists believe coastal erosion to date may actually be priming the pump in terms of specks and reds because it improves the quality of habitat for many forage species (shrimp, menhaden, sardines, silversides, benthic community, etc), by increasing plankton and other invertebrate production, and increases the total acres of edge habitat important to young speckled trout. But eventually the growing acres of open saltwater will begin to dilute, then overwhelm the impact of the descreasing amount of marsh habitat eroding. They surmise that by the time we record a "trend" (which takes several years) in declining production the damage will have been so severe there will be little we can do about it. And, unfortuantely the rate of decline will only accelerate until it reaches a new balance with the remaining habitat. At current trend of wertlands loss being accelerated by sea level rise, by the middle of this century we will have very little habitat left. Louisiana fish production will drop to what we see now in Texas and Florida, or even below. You can get a few of the measureable sea level rise to mdate at this NOAA site. www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html

Thanks for reading the TP, and sharing your thoughts.

He sure did throw a Al Gore

No doubt we have loss of wetland issues...And its our own fault...So simple to let rivers and lakes take their god given course.
Was the extension of the Ship channel good or bad? How much marsh and land have we lost due to the ship channel?? Why are we losing that land? What has water control on marshes accomplished?