10-06-2011, 05:38 PM
[quote scartinez]I've only been surveyed twice over the last six or seven years and I fish every weekend. How can these survey's be considered accurate. They spend a couple weekends on the water surveying and think they know what happens all year?[/quote]
First of all, creel surveys occur much more often than just a couple weekends during the year....second of all, if these surveys are combined with gill netting information, electro-shocking information, and compared to past year's data, they have a pretty darn good idea of what is or is not going on. I would venture to say that they have a much better handle on the fishery than the fishermen do...
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First of all, creel surveys occur much more often than just a couple weekends during the year....second of all, if these surveys are combined with gill netting information, electro-shocking information, and compared to past year's data, they have a pretty darn good idea of what is or is not going on. I would venture to say that they have a much better handle on the fishery than the fishermen do...
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