09-24-2006, 07:01 PM
I can remember the days when seaguls were not a common site in michigan, I was but knee high to a pollywog when I first spotted a seagul hovering over my house and I pointed it out and my dad told me seagulls dont live in michigan. well they followed the garbage freightors back up the hudson and st lorance though the eri canal up in to the great lakes. first finding dumping grounds, then as their numbers increased to the point where there were more birds than a dumping ground can handle and other grounds were capped off the birds had to find other feeding grounds, they inturn turned tward public refuge cans. they hold half sandwiches, tater salads and all other types of goodies.
it is funny how misguided some represenitives can be, they go to a park and see a kid thow a peice of baloney sandwich to a seagul or other wild animal and think that the kid or adult is responcible for changing the habits of animals.
if these animals habits were so changed wouldnt ya think that the bag limits of hunters would increase insted of dwindling?
not feeding gulls in a park will have nothing to do with reducing the number or freequency of gull visits to a park. Gulls visit parks because of how a park handles its daily refuge. "trash"
if they realy want to reduce the un-natural gull problem in this state they will have to start targeting them at the trash dumps, but forcing dumps to spray their dumping pits would cost money that gives no return other that eliminate gulls - so why not just pass an idiot law like dont feed the gulls, just throw you un wanted sandwich in the can where the coons can pick it up after the sun goes down and the gulls and crows can clean up the rest at the break of dawn.
dont be to hard on them just yet, the other issue is more important to us anglers than having a place to throw our gobys to. Yes I am guilty of taking my goby off of my line and tossing them to the gulls on the board walk, guess I will just to have to throw them in a bucket to die and then throw them in to the can on my way out of the park. The law says I cant release non native fish back in to the waters of michigan, well we only have four options. keep them and take them home, feed them to the gulls, put them in the can, release them back in to the water.
now dose any one here think I am going to cart goby home with me? remember the law now states it is illegal to transport non native fish in michigan.[
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it is funny how misguided some represenitives can be, they go to a park and see a kid thow a peice of baloney sandwich to a seagul or other wild animal and think that the kid or adult is responcible for changing the habits of animals.
if these animals habits were so changed wouldnt ya think that the bag limits of hunters would increase insted of dwindling?
not feeding gulls in a park will have nothing to do with reducing the number or freequency of gull visits to a park. Gulls visit parks because of how a park handles its daily refuge. "trash"
if they realy want to reduce the un-natural gull problem in this state they will have to start targeting them at the trash dumps, but forcing dumps to spray their dumping pits would cost money that gives no return other that eliminate gulls - so why not just pass an idiot law like dont feed the gulls, just throw you un wanted sandwich in the can where the coons can pick it up after the sun goes down and the gulls and crows can clean up the rest at the break of dawn.
dont be to hard on them just yet, the other issue is more important to us anglers than having a place to throw our gobys to. Yes I am guilty of taking my goby off of my line and tossing them to the gulls on the board walk, guess I will just to have to throw them in a bucket to die and then throw them in to the can on my way out of the park. The law says I cant release non native fish back in to the waters of michigan, well we only have four options. keep them and take them home, feed them to the gulls, put them in the can, release them back in to the water.
now dose any one here think I am going to cart goby home with me? remember the law now states it is illegal to transport non native fish in michigan.[
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