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re: Gulf flounder now becoming endangered....
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:34 am to Boudinbaw
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:34 am to Boudinbaw
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Ban oyster dredging statewide, watch all stocks increase. Make oysters a lease program just like other states
It's not just a coincidence that it worked wonders in calcasieu
The rest of the state is an oyster lease program. Calcasieu the only public farming oyster grounds in the state, which is part of why it went to shite. Nobody took ownership and cared enough to make sure it stayed viable. The other was the dredging that made it too easy.
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Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:35 am to choupiquesushi
Took wifey Saturday and killed 20, buddy moved to my spot and finished his 20, nuther buddy moved to same spot to finish 20, nuther had 40, nuther had 50. We were the only boats there that caught, all are guides ft/pt. Guessing there have been a couple thousand killed in this half mile area since January. That’s a lot of flounder guys but nothing compared to all of the shrimp trawls.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:44 am to Ron Cheramie
Ron you are absolutely right!!!! It was about 11:30pm on a Thursday I was right off of Kelso Bayou in 2017 under some lights behind Browns grocery at the old Texaco dock. Catching Flounder, Specks and Reds. Almost had a limit of all and this van pulls up and backs up to a slip and sits there. About 20 minutes here comes a little shrimp boat full of zipper heads, it backs into slip and they unloaded boxes of flounder, specks and reds for a solid 45 minutes into that van. That mfer was loaded like a UPS cargo trailer from floor to roof and squatted on four flats as it drove off. By the time I rolled up and headed back home he was back empty sitting waiting on the next boat. You cant stop that?!?!?! The gooks aint gonna stop
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:58 am to Boudinbaw
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Make oysters a lease program
So like..what we already have?
Care to elaborate?
Posted on 2/13/20 at 10:59 am to Boat Motor Bandit
Operation Game Thief Baw
Posted on 2/13/20 at 11:01 am to KemoSabe65
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That’s a lot of flounder guys but nothing compared to all of the shrimp trawls.
And any wonder why there is why no minimum size set protecting the juvenile stock??? So the shrimpers don't have to cull anything.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 11:03 am to MrLSU
quote:grew up hitting flounder hard.. in bay jimmy and two spots in lake laurier and bay round..... sunken shell middens..... can barely find a flounder there now...and it ain't got nothing to do with freshwater... that entire marsh has been in rapid decline.
I was talking to some trout fishing guides in Port Sulphur
Posted on 2/13/20 at 11:03 am to Boat Motor Bandit
quote:
You cant stop that?!?!?! The gooks aint gonna stop
They would if the market would drop the price of flounder to nearly nothing or not accept flounder at all.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 11:03 am to Boat Motor Bandit
quote:WLF has a tip ap you could have used...
Ron you are absolutely right!!!! It was about 11:30pm on a Thursday I was right off of Kelso Bayou in 2017 under some lights behind Browns grocery at the old Texaco dock. Catching Flounder, Specks and Reds. Almost had a limit of all and this van pulls up and backs up to a slip and sits there. About 20 minutes here comes a little shrimp boat full of zipper heads, it backs into slip and they unloaded boxes of flounder, specks and reds for a solid 45 minutes into that van. That mfer was loaded like a UPS cargo trailer from floor to roof and squatted on four flats as it drove off. By the time I rolled up and headed back home he was back empty sitting waiting on the next boat. You cant stop that?!?!?! The gooks aint gonna stop
Posted on 2/13/20 at 11:29 am to choupiquesushi
quote:
WLF has a tip ap you could have used...
Operation Game Thief does work, i've seen it in action in golden meadow.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 12:24 pm to TJG210
It is the shrimpers
This post was edited on 2/13/20 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 2/13/20 at 12:30 pm to Rust
quote:
So like..what we already have?
Care to elaborate?
I misspoke
That would only apply to calcasieu
Posted on 2/13/20 at 9:32 pm to Smell the crawfish
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think the oil spill has something to do with it also. All the crap settles on the bottom where flounders live and it has to affect all sea life.
Found the shrimper
Posted on 2/13/20 at 9:34 pm to iron banks
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Skimmers is the reason. Prior to that technique they were everywhere.
Skimmers don't drag the bottom.
Posted on 2/13/20 at 9:48 pm to Saskwatch
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Not recreationally. The theme of this thread is that commercial fishing is probably putting a dent in the populations during peak time. Estuary changes have a large part to play in this as well with freshwater diversions/influx and man made barriers.
I was unaware until tonight that over 40% of Louisiana’s coastal brackish marsh has now been dammed/wiered/locked/levee’d/ or control structured up since the 1990s. The once brackish waterways are now fresh water estuaries. White Lake, Rockefeller, and other refuges which were saltwater estuaries until the 1990s for crabs, shrimp, menhaden, and other juvenile fish are gone.
No wonder the fishery has collapsed. The State needs to sue these refuges and force them to restore the natural water flow.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 5:08 am to Saskwatch
quote:That's all I was saying. Look at what I responded to.
Not recreationally
Posted on 2/14/20 at 7:08 am to maisweh
WRONG
Skimmers do drag the bottoms at very fast rates, I have drug bottom trawls and skimmed and seen the amount of small founder caught and it’s a decent chunk of the by catch at certain times of the year.
But, shrimp tonnage caught in the gulf is at a all time low and now shrimpers are the reason!? I think there are others issues as some posters have pointed out not just commercial fishing.
Skimmers do drag the bottoms at very fast rates, I have drug bottom trawls and skimmed and seen the amount of small founder caught and it’s a decent chunk of the by catch at certain times of the year.
But, shrimp tonnage caught in the gulf is at a all time low and now shrimpers are the reason!? I think there are others issues as some posters have pointed out not just commercial fishing.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 7:47 am to mack the knife
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Operation Game Thief does work, i've seen it in action in golden meadow.
Personally watched three guys get busted that we called in for keeping undersized reds from the pump station hole.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 12:05 pm to Ol boy
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very fast rates
3 mph isn't fast.
quote:
shrimp tonnage caught in the gulf is at a all time low and now shrimpers are the reason!?
Correct. Diesel prices, ice, and the shed is giving a dollar a pound for shrimp, lots of people are giving it up. Theres more to it than just blaming shrimping
Posted on 2/14/20 at 12:05 pm to SpeckledTiger
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Personally watched three guys get busted that we called in for keeping undersized reds from the pump station hole.
I've never seen any of the vietnamese get busted for filling up their buckets
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