10-18-2019, 03:39 PM
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[quote dubob][quote PBH]But there is also a monetary cost associated with a fishery that anglers avoid due to poor quality fishing.[/quote][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]For some reason, I can't think of a single cost associated with avoiding fishing at Scofield. Please tell me what those costs are. I'm being serious; I can't think of a single cost. Who would bear that cost?[/size][/#800000][/font][/quote]
The cost is that we've had (pretty much still have) a Utah State Park that is a ghost town. There was a time when the saying floated around that you could walk across Scofield from boat to boat. Nobody pays to launch boats or stay in the campgrounds. They still pay to maintain it and staff it, but why? There has been a whole lot of economic opportunity for Carbon County that has been squandered. When people don't go fishing, they don't buy licenses. That's a loss for the DWR.
As JandSGuns said;
I am not interested in catching wipers, muskies, chubs or small cuts and tigers that have to be thrown back. I gave up fishing Scofield. I always hope that someday that will be a great trout fishery again.
I think there a lot of folks who feel the same way. I've talked to a lot of folks who feel the exact same way, but most of them don't jump on BFT and shout praises for perch or walleye, or bass, or muskies.
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[quote dubob][quote PBH]But there is also a monetary cost associated with a fishery that anglers avoid due to poor quality fishing.[/quote][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 3]For some reason, I can't think of a single cost associated with avoiding fishing at Scofield. Please tell me what those costs are. I'm being serious; I can't think of a single cost. Who would bear that cost?[/size][/#800000][/font][/quote]
The cost is that we've had (pretty much still have) a Utah State Park that is a ghost town. There was a time when the saying floated around that you could walk across Scofield from boat to boat. Nobody pays to launch boats or stay in the campgrounds. They still pay to maintain it and staff it, but why? There has been a whole lot of economic opportunity for Carbon County that has been squandered. When people don't go fishing, they don't buy licenses. That's a loss for the DWR.
As JandSGuns said;
I am not interested in catching wipers, muskies, chubs or small cuts and tigers that have to be thrown back. I gave up fishing Scofield. I always hope that someday that will be a great trout fishery again.
I think there a lot of folks who feel the same way. I've talked to a lot of folks who feel the exact same way, but most of them don't jump on BFT and shout praises for perch or walleye, or bass, or muskies.
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