Anglers can net thousands of dollars reeling in 'nuisance' fish on the Columbia River
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- A program based in Washington pays out anglers for catching one type of fish in particular along the Columbia River. The Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Program aims to keep the predatory fish from feasting on young salmonids.
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Sounds like a great program especially for older folks that like to fish and can use the extra buck!
It’s a scam run by government
This has been done trying to rid the river of Bullheads many years ago. One Russian guy brought so many Bullheads in one year that he was paid $93,000 in one year ! So authorities started looking and they discovered that he had aquariums in his garage and he was raising them ! He was arrested, I don't know if he was deported.
😂
There’s always one 😂
Lol. Awesome. Like jamming fishing weights into the fish you catch in competitions to increase their weight so you win.😂. Then get caught doing it.
It makes no sense not to pay for smaller fish. The smaller fish will produce young if they are not caught. They should pay by the pound for smaller fish and keep the length standard pay grade. I would like to see a study of why they do not pay for smaller fish that cannot eat the fingerling salmon.
Northern Pike Minnow = Squaw Fish if anyone was wondering.
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I guess fish under nine inches don't grow up to eat salmon.
@@boblatkey7160 Hard for some people to comprehend simple things
they aren't close to spawning age and there's a good chance they die naturally before spawning age, so it wouldn't be worth paying for them
I believe it has more to do with being able to manage the population somehow. Seems to me it is more efficient and resourceful to run a program designed around a single behavior, such as fish who eat smolt, like a type of Occam's Razor approach, or some similar parsimonic approach. My two cents, anyway. 8-)
9 inch fish cannot but it will get bigger and it can be caught next year guess you skipped commonsense
It’s a government scam, think about it, we all pay to fish, hunt, whatever, where’s the taxes going if you want the fishing community to do what we pay taxes for? Scam!
I live in the Northeast part of Oregon along the Columbia River and yes I will say the numbers of the big Northern pikeminnow have declined on the Columbia River with that being said you go up almost any of the tributaries especially the umatilla River it is full of nothing but northern and maybe the occasional small mouth and yet we can't turn those Northern pikeminnow end because they're not from the Columbia River you're really want to help out the salmon start taking those northern pike out of the tributaries
Hell, I'd be lucky to catch just one fish. Be my luck, I'd get all excited, reel it in, and find that it's a steelhead. And it'll be my only catch for a week.
Man. Great program. You getting pay doing you already love.
And then the irs knocks on your door, wanting their cut
A parable and a gambit, those news guys were really showing off
Where do I take northern pike minnow on the Northern Roosevelt Lake section of the Columbia River? I caught a 4lb pike minnow that was 23.5 inches at the mouth of the colville river. I called every number imaginable, and got zero answers.
What does DFW do with the fish after collection? Are they edible?
Yeah they are edible but really boney
Perhaps turn them into fish meal?
When they open sea lion season I will be there.
That’s cool…pays people to do what they enjoy doing
this sounds great
Not sure why the River authorities aren't electro fishing them out. I know a number of places around the world that have pretty much eradicated pest species using that method of control.
Because other species like salmon and trout and sturgeon live and migrate in the river too.
Too bad they don't do this all year around. I would do it during the winter months.
and now I know what a salmonid is.
If they're edible, this is a gold mine. Get paid to land them, then turn around and sell them.
Too bad the 6 minute video has no mention of what happens to the expensive pikes.
Yes it does. They get used for fertilizer or tossed out. They aren’t good eating.
@@roblockhart8410 could turn them into cat food
Yeah I someone who makes cat food wants it they could have. These don’t and they don’t have a whole bunch of money to mess around with invasive species corpses. Just got to be happy they are paying guys to kill them as it’s desperately needed
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Can you use a net? Like a commercial fishing net?
@jacka55six no. You have to use what the call the hook n line method. Which means rod n reel. I think they should change the term myself because some guys might be under the impression that mean long-lining can they could get a guy in hot water reel fast. Pun intended
Are the Pike good to eat?
Really boney and not really all that great. But yes they are edible if you cook and season it right
pay for every size
Also, show me one pike caught on a worm and bobber
fish net catch also can ？
Sign me up. They need to do this on the Fraser and I’ll quit my job.
need to do that to the flying carp
Open it to tributaries of the columbia.
If this was in california there would be no fish left😂😂
Salmon ocean season in California is completely closed until April 2024, and salmon fishing on the Smith River where I live is closed also the Klamath is closed and other rivers farther south are closed too. But this is Commiefornia and they pull this crap !
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Not so hio on the nine inch deal considering those niners are gonna grow and start killing.
What a wonderful program. Those fisherman seem to be having a great time, and it is saving the salmon population. Good use of tax funds, I say.
Should they be broadcasting information about old guys sitting in vans at remote boat landings with large piles of cash? I’m hoping they’ll count your fish there and then send you a check.
get real, they don't hand out cash. you get a waiver you mail off somewhere and hope for a cheque
@@schlomoshekelstein908 That's more believable.
I hope the money they pay it out doesn't reflect the price of a fishing license
I can't imagine where else the money would come from, and of course, no one is saying.
@@scott5456 the Bonneville power administration pays out.. not revenue from fishing licenses.
If that's what you were referring to.
@@SomethiingClever Yes it was.
How do you come by this information?
Is it public knowledge? Are they the policy setters? Do they then too state where those funds originated?
Thanks. ✌️
@@scott5456 @2:00 they say it. I didn't catch it the first time. I think it's what they're saying at least. That the dam pays for it due to it damaging the river.
@@SomethiingClever thanks.
the best way to help your native salmon is to stop killing them and advocate for dam removal.
DUH Tens of Millions of salmon have to be raised every year in Alaska, Canada, Washington, Oregon and California just to keep the species alive.
Anyone thought of investing in a net 🙄
It’s illegal to net fish! 🙄
Squaws
The maths are faulty, a reduction of 10 to 20% in predators, will not result in a 40% reduction in predation
probably way more, if you consider predators usually eat their weight every week
What a shame. We are destroying this world.
It’s not my job to clean the rivers, it’s why I pay taxes and pay to fish and hunt! Stop pocketing taxes and asking the ppl to bust their a$$ for something that should be done by government agencies!
gettin paid to fish ahha nice
People cant afford food but yet ther paying to throw food away
You don't know the half of it.They just spent $5million to produce 60,000 suckers per year for the Klamath Indian claiming that it was their traditional food.We have millions of them in the Columbia and the Indians won't touch them.We could bring them a fucking trainload for a few hundred bucks.
I have been doing a lot of research on this subject too.The old Indians along the Columbia say that these suckers were a very important food source for them and as important as the salmon but you ask them about it now and they will lie about it and claim they never ate them.Its not about food it's all about extorting money from the government.
Soft basket woman monsters and shit."Largescale sucker are reported to have been consumed by the Mid-Columbia Indians of the Columbia River between Celilo Falls and Priest Rapids (eastern Oregon and Washington States) [69]. In the early 1800s, they were caught one of two ways: in traps made of willow baskets set on a stone weir or snagged with a three-pronged hook on a line. They were a highly valued fish that was considered as important as salmon. Available in February and March, they were the first fish after winter months, providing a refreshing change from dried winter foods. A popular myth recounts the tale of how a largescale sucker was rehabilitated from a fall from the sky with the bones of other animals. The purpose of this was so that the fish would be available for people to catch and enjoy. The unusually shaped bones of the sucker provide detail for the story, with some of them referred to as “grizzly’s earrings”, “raven’s socks”, “cricket packing her child”, soft-basket-woman monster”.
It's weird as fuck!They mention those Mormon crickets in this article too and those bugs were a large part of their traditional diets but only high value salmon and free filet of bison fell from the sky.
It goes against conventional thinking but salmon were not an important food source for Indians until after white people came and developed that fishing.Its a true story.
Get rid of the dams and the salmon will come back... A no brainer...
This is the craziest idea ever. Poor pike minnows 😂 imagine doing something that would actually help such ass addressing commercial fishing, pollution and climate change. But nah we'll just kill pike minnows and hope the problem goes away 💀
Nah it's really not insane. It's a way of enriching and enhancing their rearing environment to COMPENSATE for the overfishing, pollution and climactic variables. Pikeminnow populations are VERY stable. And in other states they are invasive
Trying to play god with native species..
this is a horrible idea. pikeminnow are naturally occurring fish, they are part of the ecosystem as nature intended
As the Director of the program said, they only try to reduce the population10%-20% each year to keep the pikeminnow population in check. The program is not trying to eradicate them, they are a native fish. They have made that goal each year, and the program has been around for over 20 yrs.
How bout open season on sea lions that would help more than anything furbags
Ill be there with my cast nets, dynamite, spear gun, and rotnone.Get your wallet out game warden.
Go electric you will be just rewarded by the looney climate change idiots !