Category: Pikeminnows
8K Fish = 66K Dollars
It’s that time again. The time to award, reward or mental-ward – whatever you want to call it – those folks in the Pacific Northwest who grind out cash year after year by catching and killing northern pikeminnows, formerly called squawfish. As we’ve said here before, Bonneville Power Administration (our tax $ at work!) provides [...]
Using Derbies for Fishery Management
Could fishing tourneys be a valid fish management tool? Seems like it. Maybe they should be. Cases in point: > The Bonneville Power Administration in Washington state pays out over $1 mil a year for catching and removing pikeminnows (aka, squawfish), which prey on salmon. > An Aussie tourney – the Bellingen Eel Fishing Championships, [...]
Screw Vegas: $1.2 Mil for Trash Fish
Here’s a quiz for ya: How many non-pro, non-tournament organizations paid out $1.2 million in just over 5 months this year for landing rod-caught fish? None? Nope. The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). Back in the early days of BassParade – a couple months ago… – we ran a piece about Nikolay Zaremskiy of Gresham, OR, a [...]
51 Grand for Catching Trash Fish!
Who needs tournaments when you’ve got northern pikeminnows? The lovely state of Oregon – lovely, yes, but its state G&F department considers black bass a nuisance fish – provides a lucrative bounty on northern pikeminnows, the fish formerly known as northern squawfish, name changed because using the word “squaw” was politically incorrect – seriously.
