Anglers can net thousands of dollars reeling in 'nuisance' fish on the Columbia River 

It’s a scam run by government

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There’s always one 😂

Lol. Awesome. Like jamming fishing weights into the fish you catch in competitions to increase their weight so you win.😂. Then get caught doing it.

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@@boblatkey7160 Hard for some people to comprehend simple things

they aren't close to spawning age and there's a good chance they die naturally before spawning age, so it wouldn't be worth paying for them

I believe it has more to do with being able to manage the population somehow. Seems to me it is more efficient and resourceful to run a program designed around a single behavior, such as fish who eat smolt, like a type of Occam's Razor approach, or some similar parsimonic approach. My two cents, anyway. 8-)

9 inch fish cannot but it will get bigger and it can be caught next year guess you skipped commonsense

It’s a government scam, think about it, we all pay to fish, hunt, whatever, where’s the taxes going if you want the fishing community to do what we pay taxes for? Scam!

Yeah they are edible but really boney

Perhaps turn them into fish meal?

Too bad the 6 minute video has no mention of what happens to the expensive pikes.

Yes it does. They get used for fertilizer or tossed out. They aren’t good eating.

​@@roblockhart8410 could turn them into cat food

Yeah I someone who makes cat food wants it they could have. These don’t and they don’t have a whole bunch of money to mess around with invasive species corpses. Just got to be happy they are paying guys to kill them as it’s desperately needed

Because other species like salmon and trout and sturgeon live and migrate in the river too.

@jacka55six no. You have to use what the call the hook n line method. Which means rod n reel. I think they should change the term myself because some guys might be under the impression that mean long-lining can they could get a guy in hot water reel fast. Pun intended

Really boney and not really all that great. But yes they are edible if you cook and season it right

Salmon ocean season in California is completely closed until April 2024, and salmon fishing on the Smith River where I live is closed also the Klamath is closed and other rivers farther south are closed too. But this is Commiefornia and they pull this crap !

get real, they don't hand out cash. you get a waiver you mail off somewhere and hope for a cheque

@@schlomoshekelstein908 That's more believable.

I can't imagine where else the money would come from, and of course, no one is saying.

@@scott5456 the Bonneville power administration pays out.. not revenue from fishing licenses. If that's what you were referring to.

@@SomethiingClever Yes it was. How do you come by this information? Is it public knowledge? Are they the policy setters? Do they then too state where those funds originated? Thanks. ✌️

@@scott5456 @2:00 they say it. I didn't catch it the first time. I think it's what they're saying at least. That the dam pays for it due to it damaging the river.

@@SomethiingClever thanks.

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DUH Tens of Millions of salmon have to be raised every year in Alaska, Canada, Washington, Oregon and California just to keep the species alive.

It’s illegal to net fish! 🙄

probably way more, if you consider predators usually eat their weight every week

You don't know the half of it.They just spent $5million to produce 60,000 suckers per year for the Klamath Indian claiming that it was their traditional food.We have millions of them in the Columbia and the Indians won't touch them.We could bring them a fucking trainload for a few hundred bucks.

I have been doing a lot of research on this subject too.The old Indians along the Columbia say that these suckers were a very important food source for them and as important as the salmon but you ask them about it now and they will lie about it and claim they never ate them.Its not about food it's all about extorting money from the government.

Soft basket woman monsters and shit."Largescale sucker are reported to have been consumed by the Mid-Columbia Indians of the Columbia River between Celilo Falls and Priest Rapids (eastern Oregon and Washington States) [69]. In the early 1800s, they were caught one of two ways: in traps made of willow baskets set on a stone weir or snagged with a three-pronged hook on a line. They were a highly valued fish that was considered as important as salmon. Available in February and March, they were the first fish after winter months, providing a refreshing change from dried winter foods. A popular myth recounts the tale of how a largescale sucker was rehabilitated from a fall from the sky with the bones of other animals. The purpose of this was so that the fish would be available for people to catch and enjoy. The unusually shaped bones of the sucker provide detail for the story, with some of them referred to as “grizzly’s earrings”, “raven’s socks”, “cricket packing her child”, soft-basket-woman monster”.

It's weird as fuck!They mention those Mormon crickets in this article too and those bugs were a large part of their traditional diets but only high value salmon and free filet of bison fell from the sky.

It goes against conventional thinking but salmon were not an important food source for Indians until after white people came and developed that fishing.Its a true story.

Nah it's really not insane. It's a way of enriching and enhancing their rearing environment to COMPENSATE for the overfishing, pollution and climactic variables. Pikeminnow populations are VERY stable. And in other states they are invasive

As the Director of the program said, they only try to reduce the population10%-20% each year to keep the pikeminnow population in check. The program is not trying to eradicate them, they are a native fish. They have made that goal each year, and the program has been around for over 20 yrs.

Go electric you will be just rewarded by the looney climate change idiots !