Ban fishing in Minnesota parks?

[Barry Loos]

Out west some lakes have banned or are trying to ban two-cycle engines. Hunters across the US have been attacked for years. Now the Minnesota fishermen are targeted. If the outdoorsmen, boat manufacturers, tackle suppliers, etc. don't unite and stop this stuff we will end up with year round cabin fever.



I copied this from BFHP.



From the New England Sportsman Network Web January 15, 2002



William Morrissey, Director Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Parks and Recreation Division 500 Lafayette Road St. Paul, MN 55155



Dear Mr. Morrissey:



On behalf of PETA

 

[Staci Matheis]

There will always be extemists on every side of every issue. We need them. The are usually the catalysts that start needed changes.



Thank God that we have balance in this world........



me

 

[stan jones]

i think kite flying should be banned also have you ever seen all that deadly kite string in the woods from those crafty kites that got away."THE HORROR" seriously' i think animal rights groups have thier place,but the extremists do not help thier cause at all and are thier own worst enemy. but you have to be careful because some times laws get changed by these people. so as much as you would to ignore these groups when they get extreme you really can't. stan

 

[Rob LaMoy]

Too easy. Igonrance that obvious is absolutely astounding! How can anyone make that claim with a straight face. i heard it argued once that plants respond to music and talk, and they ARE a living organism, so I am starting the People's ethical treatment and protection of plants. Big mean deer eatin' on those poor innocent little plants. Gotta put an end to that and protect our nations foliage from certain extinction at the jaws of the evil wildlife!

 

[Mark Hofman]

(From the aforementioned letter): "As you know, fish have a neurochemical system like ours and thus the brain capacity to experience fear and pain . . . Many die slowly and painfully from suffocation."



Let me just add something about the "pain" part a bit. Our Scout group works a private lake here in Missouri that receives VERY little fishing pressure (except from our group, of course). The lake is over-populated and has a lack of forage fish for the bass. As a result, the bass that do inhabit the lake tend to be malnourished (big head, small body). We initiated a slot limit so that the bass could feed on the bass fry hatched each year. It's cannibalism, but its saving the fish and they're beginning to look healthier. For this lake, a three pound fish is great. My brother-in-law hooked a nine pounder.



How much pain does a bass feel when it's STARVING to death, and expending limited energy competing for an amount of food that really doesn't replace what it expended to catch that food in the first place. How slowly does a starving bass die, when it can't find enough food to regain its strength? I'm sure its a lot more slowly than one that suffocates in an ill-maintained livewell, or one that is quickly dispatched under my electric filet knife.



How much more sick does a bass get when it is malnourished than when it is living in a lake where the number of predatory fish and the number of forage fish are balanced?



Follow PETA's logic about banning fishing, and you will end up with lakes that are out of balance.



What they really want is for all HUMANS to die (except tree-hugging, vegetarians like themselves) so that "Mother Earth" can be restored to its former glory. In other words, you and I are in the way. We're in THEIR way. Talk about compassionate?



If you want to really get into the heads of folks like this then buy, beg, borrow (but don't steal) it and read Tom Clancy's novel RAINBOW SIX. It'll make yer skin crawl.



Sorry, just had to sound off.



Mark