>>2338911>makes fishing pressure low....or does it? Rather curious about that.don't know too much about the theory, but i know this:
we have almost no brown trouts left in the rivers because this was the nr. 1 fish for boomers for decades.
we have max limits per week and a long closed season but it don't really help.
together with pollution and global warming, the stocks are diminishing.
the local clubs have to plant rainbow trouts shortly before the closed season is ending, so the members have something to fish.
It lasts for a 1-2 months.
With the younger generation, the focus switched from trouts to perches. So we have now a mass fishing for predators, including zander and pike.
this will lead to the same outcome as the rainbow trouts even worse because we have no taking-limit for predators like pike and perch (yet).
natural stock will diminish and the local clubs or even the government have to plant cultivated fish.
you can compare us to the Netherlands, which has catch and release.
A 40cm+ perch in germany is a trophy fish. A 50+cm is almost impossible to find.
in the Netherlands, you can catch "easily" a 45cm+ perch. Even 50cm are common in tournaments.
This problematic will be growing because you can buy day tickets for almost every lake but not for every river.
the river ticket contingent is limited even for members of the local clubs who are giving them out. (every city has usually its own club and every club has its own section of a river.)
so not every member will be able to get one.
you don't have this problem for lakes
with covid you have a large amount of new fishermen who want to fish like their influencer youtuber
so basically they will traget every predator. pike, zander and perch.
and because of our regulations they will kill every fucking pike, zander and perch they catch
even if they are in the perfect size for breeding
there are ideas like removal windows, but we would need to change our laws for that (state and nation level)
