Glenn Canyon National Recreation Area –
Every brown trout between the Glenn Cayon Dam and the mouth of the Paria River on the Colorado just had a bounty put on their head. A $25-$33 bounty per Brown Trout caught, that is. The National Park Service (NPS) calls this practice “Incentivized harvest” and it is part of a multi-year program meant to benefit the native fish species of the Colorado River.
From the National Park Service:
“The incentivized harvest begins on November 11, 2020. For the next 3 to 4 years, eligible anglers will be offered a reward of $25 per Brown Trout over 6 inches in length removed from the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and the mouth of the Paria River. This reward may vary with the seasons or be adjusted annually, but will typically be in the $25-$33 dollar range.
The goal of this pilot program is to determine if an incentivized harvest can help manage and reduce the number of brown trout in the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and the mouth of the Paria River. The initial research into the use of this tool is designed to last three to four years, at which time the program will be evaluated for its effectiveness.”
So if you’ve got a few months to kill this winter, now’s the time to go cash in big on Arizona’s Colorado River Brown Trout and help out the river’s native species!
Learn more about the program, here!
Featured image from NPS.
This is how sportsman’s tax dollars end up , going to assaninituy. The Deparment Of Interior has been trying to save the warm water species in a cold water environment. Twenty years ago the Rainbow was the enemy for that warm water species the Humpback Chub at Lees Ferry . That didn’t worked but did sideline the local economy killing a great trophy fishery. Now there’s a bounty as the German Brown Trout is the culprit as they now restock Rainbows in the same waters . The Chubs are always doing better further down stream in warmer tail waters . The public is finally catching on that the real reason theses assanine environmental projects happen is really for the Beauacrats and Pell Grant types is money. Meanwhile the propaganda of junk sciences gets forced fed into the educational systems to further brainwash the public. When suggested to the Park Service why not import the Chubs from the Columbia River where there’s a bounty on them to help there Chub saving project but they say they don’t have the same D N A. They will never solve the situation correctly because then there’s nothing left to justify the myth. Well there’s the other standby that works ! Delist And give it a new name.