They undoubtedly got the attention of a few folks with this item:
During the annual consortium of Department of Fish and Wildlife Resource officers in Washington, D.C., it was proposed by a small group that fisheries managers seriously consider removing the use of real-time imaging as a means of legally catching fish. At least 12 state agencies were said to be in agreement. And the small group was lobbying for a countrywide "livescope ban" or a ban of forward-facing sonar technologies like Garmin LiveScope, the originator of forward-facing, real-time sonar in the finding and catching of game fish on state fisheries.
LiveScope has been an uber-polarizing subject among anglers, both professionally and even down to the infrequent vacation angler. So this doesn't come as a complete shock that someone would put forward nonsensical motions like this.
Most game and fish agencies are charged with managing fish populations for consumption. They work tirelessly to ensure the fisheries are in stable, healthy conditions to support game-fish populations and spawn recruitment from season to season at a high enough rate to sustain harvesting by license-holding anglers.
It's good and fair policy to operate this way, and we commend our state fisheries biologists and DNR representatives who work to ensure we have healthy fisheries to fish.
To see the full list of state considering the ban, follow this link:
Anyone who clicked on the link provided in the Wired2Fish item then got this:
Hopefully you can appreciate a little Garmin Livescope joking around on April Fool's Day.
Livescope is not going anywhere. It's simply a tool that is teaching anglers more about fish behavior at a much more rapid pace than ever in the history of fishing. So we can never fault new technology for helping us expand our knowledge and abilities in fishing. While we do need to be careful on smaller bodies of water of overharvesting, with increased precision and methodology in fishing, most large reservoirs will still have the same old problems of siltation, illegal stocking of incompatible species, water fluctuations during the spawn, and other nuisances to deal with. Livescope is generally not going to result in over-harvesting on big public water. Lakes like Grenada continue to prove that. And more big crappie and bass die of old age than do harvesting on these large reservoirs.
So for now, enjoy a little light-hearted fun. See if you can dupe your fishing buddies by sharing this with them.
Incidentally, I can't take credit for finding this. My longtime good buddy, Jim B, shared it with me after coming across it during an Internet surfing session. Thanks!
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