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HB 156: Calcasieu Lake Oyster Harvest
Posted on 5/3/17 at 8:54 am
Posted on 5/3/17 at 8:54 am
HB 156 would limit oyster harvest in Calcasieu Lake and Sabine Lake to tonging only, and remove scrapers (dredges) as an allowable harvest method. If any of you guys fish out of Big Lake, you know the oyster population has been getting more and more depleted due to dredging. In 2003 it was estimated there were 1.2 million sacks of oysters available but that number has dropped to less than 100,000 today. CCA has issued a letter of support for the bill and I anticipate other organizations will follow.
It passed through committee with a 16-0 vote.
Even if you don't fish the west side of the state, I'd encourage you to call your legislators and urge them to support this bill.
It passed through committee with a 16-0 vote.
Even if you don't fish the west side of the state, I'd encourage you to call your legislators and urge them to support this bill.
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Posted on 5/3/17 at 9:53 am to Drunken Crawfish
They were pimping this at the CCA banquet I went to last week. I got a dumbfounded look from the guy when I asked about how many oyster dredging jobs this would eliminate for locals.
Point being. I love the idea as a fisherman, but all factors should be considered including the people who make a living doing what they want to ban.
Point being. I love the idea as a fisherman, but all factors should be considered including the people who make a living doing what they want to ban.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 10:01 am to Clyde Tipton
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I got a dumbfounded look from the guy when I asked about how many oyster dredging jobs this would eliminate for locals.
There won't be any oyster harvesting jobs when the stock is completely depleted...
Posted on 5/3/17 at 10:10 am to Clyde Tipton
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how many oyster dredging jobs this would eliminate for locals
No dredging means more tonging to meet demand = more laborers
Posted on 5/3/17 at 10:18 am to Clyde Tipton
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Point being. I love the idea as a fisherman, but all factors should be considered including the people who make a living doing what they want to ban.
The people make a living harvesting oysters. They didn't ban that, just one method by which it can be accomplished.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 10:25 am to Cowboyfan89
Maybe the irony is lost on y'all, but the same people bitching about the snapper season want to regulate another group's fishery.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 10:37 am to stewie
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There won't be any oyster harvesting jobs when the stock is completely depleted...
^^^This. You can't take oysters from the North end of the lake because of the coliform levels so everything under the "fire line" is getting over fished. There is basically only one live reef left on the south end of the lake. I think your only options to save what's left of the oyster population are to close the fishery down completely for oyster harvesting or move to a tong only method.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 10:40 am to Clyde Tipton
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Maybe the irony is lost on y'all, but the same people bitching about the snapper season want to regulate another group's fishery.
I feel like those are two different arguments. The snapper population is thriving as to the oyster population is nearly gone.
Posted on 5/3/17 at 11:07 am to Clyde Tipton
Bad argument.
If both populations were declining, sure, you have a point.
But the snapper population by many accounts isn't, so you don't.
The fact is, multiple species of fish have been overregulated (see speckled trout, tripletail), while the oyster has been raped in Calcasieu Lake.
If both populations were declining, sure, you have a point.
But the snapper population by many accounts isn't, so you don't.
The fact is, multiple species of fish have been overregulated (see speckled trout, tripletail), while the oyster has been raped in Calcasieu Lake.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 9:45 am to Cowboyfan89
UPDATE: HB 156 passed 94-1. Rep. Hensgens was the nay.
Posted on 5/11/17 at 2:06 pm to Clyde Tipton
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I got a dumbfounded look from the guy when I asked about how many oyster dredging jobs this would eliminate for locals.
Eliminates Zero jobs....not sure who you asked but anyone within CCA knows this. This bill just limits the gear used. Big Lake is a public seed ground, so anyone who wants to fish it for oysters can. Going back to traditional methods ought to weed out the Johnny come Lately's who are taking all they can get.
If nothing is done, there will be no oyster season next year in Big Lake. Folks within LDWF has stated such. This is a prime example of how quickly things go bad with coastal erosion/habitat loss/bad management by all parties involved all work against a resource.
This isn't a fisherman vs oystermen issue. This is a resource issue, plain and simple.
This post was edited on 5/11/17 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 5/11/17 at 2:42 pm to Clyde Tipton
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Maybe the irony is lost on y'all, but the same people bitching about the snapper season want to regulate another group's fishery.
we are talking about regulating dredges...I don't know anyone who dredges for oysters for personal consumption, do you?
The argument about the snapper regulation is we want to limit the commercial harvest of snapper so the average recreational Joe Citizen can have a reasonable harvest
either of these regulations(Snapper or Oyster) can only lead to more opportunity for recreational fishermen of both
Posted on 5/11/17 at 3:03 pm to Drunken Crawfish
Posted on 5/11/17 at 4:29 pm to TJG210
Is tonging a commercially viable method, or just for recreational guys?
Posted on 5/11/17 at 4:36 pm to rduple2
Know of several commercial guys in Tx that coon for them with tongs, usually end up with the cream of the crop. The beds they coon can't be dredged so they can grow unharassed until harvested.
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