re: First speckled trout, now LDWF is saying Redfish stocks are depleted

Hook and line fishermen aren't hurting the stocks. The fishing stock counts the state does are very flawed. They don't account for habitat change and just survey the same exact area decade after decade. No other place on earth is like the south Louisiana coast and it changes drastically depending on the river and hurricane activity. They have to adjust year to year but they don't.

I have severe doubts about the knowledge of the "scientist" the state uses anyway. We have let them survey our catches several times and not a single person knew that females lived longer an grew bigger than males. They would then look at their data and be like "oh gee whiz 90% of the trout you harvested are female and oh gee all the trout over 15" are female". The thing is no one there is actually concerned about managing the stocks, they just want to manage the people...