The truth of the matter is that I couldn't care less about green carp, other than they provide something to do when I'm actually in NE, and the water is too war to fish muskies.
The concern isn't bowfishing, I could care less, you failed to see that in the previous post. The concern is judging the size of the fish, should someone decide to do so, and you'd be surprised just how shallow muskies will be at times other than in spring. Learn a little about them, and you'd find that it is entirely plausible they could be a target species. I'm not getting into that debate.
The reason they are so valuable is they are an apex predator that can sustain a fishery for many years, they won't reproduce like Bass will, and therefore have to be stocked. They are expensive to stock, far more than largemouth. They need to be protected so that the fishery is there, and available for people to enjoy, they need to be protected from being taken out of the lake and eaten, because they really are a sport fish. They are a predator, they eat other fish and get high mercury/pcb content in their flesh, you shouldn't eat them in the first place. A forty inch fish is nothing, compared to what they can get to, even here in NE, at WT, ZO, or elsewhere, doesnt matter.
That's why I am up in arms about it. You fail to understand most of the argument thus far, as I see it, you don't even want to acknowledge the viability of the fishery, and the ability to keep it viable through means such as a size limit.
You think people are whining about it...damned right. I'm disgusted in it for more reasons than I can count.
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