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Friday, July 11, 2014

Perusing Through Red River Catfish Guide

By Rosella Campbell


In order to monitor the shared fish stock on this water way, a technical board on fisheries got formed in the year 1989. Their mandate ranged from formulation of protection measures, determination of population of the fishes, coming up with future action plans and development of consistent assessment of fisheries. The two states that border the waterway adopted the red river catfish guide.

One of the recommendations proposed was a unique regulation that was to protect the fish population from over harvesting. The limit of catfish that were to be possessed was set at a maximum of five and only one was to be more than twenty four inches. The regulation was made in reference to the North Dakota 1990 and Minnesota 1991 proposals.

So as to make determination of the populations of the bigger catfishes in this water course, a series of estimation of the populations was done. The sampling procedures were intensely conducted partly to evaluate impacts on 1990 regulations of channel catfish and the other part was set to determine the fish population on the waterway and the populations size structure of the catfishes in Red River.

Surveys on anglers have been undertaken by both states on the basis of this water body in a bid to determine its usage by local residents and nonresidents, harvesting rates, general location and season harvesting is usually undertaken, among others. Minnesota undertook creels for a period of four months on summer and then later the North Dakota undertook it during the months of open waters. The reason for this so as to determine impact created by experimental spring fishing.

During the 1998 springs, the process of evaluating impacts that would accrue from making the watercourse open to public fishing commenced. The watercourse had been closed before so as to prevent overfishing of certain species. Spring fishing incorporated series of limits on sizes and possession during the period of 2000 to 2004 which was to monitor the amount of harvest. Conservations officials from both states were the ones to enforce these regulations.

From the data which had been obtained from the survey that had been conducted, the obstructive limits during springs and the high liberal limits which were put in place for the remaining year showed no significant or completely no bearing on the populations. The department of games and fishes of North Dakota made an all seasonal daily proposal and possession limit. This new regulation had to be evaluated to monitor whether the aims and objectives were being met.

The Minnesota DNR in conjunction with the North Dakota games and fish unit carried out a routine sampling on Red River for time duration of 1995 to 2001. Determination of population of the fishes, the number structure and sizes of different species and serve in developing of trends that would monitor the catfish population changes were the major aim of this project.

The committee has initiated steps aimed to standardize procedures on Red Water Course with an aim of making fishing to be very user friendly. The regulations are to be grounded on biology that is logical, must be enforceable and should be assessed to ensure that fishing becomes better and enjoyable.




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