increase the daily bag limit of Chinook and Coho salmon?

[Jaackrabbit]

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The Department of Natural Resources today announced that Fisheries Division is seeking public input on a draft proposal to increase the daily bag limit for Chinook salmon and Coho salmon to five fish per day. If adopted, the regulation would apply on all Great Lakes and rivers.
The regulations currently in place for trout and salmon in all waters of the State set the daily bag limit at five fish in any combination but no more than three of any one species, except that up to five pink salmon may be harvested.

The proposed change would increase the harvest limit for Chinook salmon and Coho salmon to five daily in combination or for either species.

Here is the link for the full story.
[url "http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10371_10402-190877--,00.html"]http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10371_10402-190877--,00.html[/url]
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[davetclown]

might be a good temp thing, conciderin how many people who will not be able to hit the roads to make those long trips to the river this high gas price season [pirate]

hate to see all those dead fish get washed down the river, we dont have bear or wolves around to eat them any more....
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[bassass]

we don't have bears and wolves?
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[davetclown]

not like what we used to..... Before my time that is....
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[lonehunter]

I have to agree , it could be a good idea for the angler .

There are the east side rivers that would be hurt by the measure with the already dwindiling population of fish .

Would this help prevent or reduce the "poaching" population ? Who knows , greed goes deep in some people .

Would this benifit the Mi.DNR ? theres the key question .
If it shows a substantial increase in fishing license sales I'm shure the measure would be adopted .
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[davetclown]

there is already a three line limit is some areas of the state when trolling for salmon... I dont see it bringing in any additional licenes....
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[lonehunter]

I had to switch to basic editor to post , guess there is a bug or two that needs a shot of raid [crazy].

What I ment is that if the increase was made in a take limit it might encourage a few more fishermen to get the all species licence or , perhaps get a few non-fishermen to take up the sport .
Me I just love fishing for the fish and only keep a couple every year .
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