salmondan
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Post by salmondan on Dec 16, 2007 18:44:32 GMT
A small article on Inverness Angling club site has seen a 5yr closure of a net. The cost is £4,000 per year and the number of extra fish reckoned to run as a result is 400. Therefore the price of each fish is £100. Do you think this is value for money and is this likely to be the average cost for other netting venues. www.invernessanglingclub.co.uk/rules/news.htmThe article says that 400 fish per year will be the increase, which amounts to £10 per fish. Excellent value IMO. As for other netting venues, if that IS the approximate cost, angling associations all over Scotland should be looking at increasing their ticket prices to do the same. One thing (as an aside and not wishing to hijack this thread) that strikes me is that the extra 400 fish would mean much more than just extra sport. The 400 fish taken in a netting station will ALL die. If anglers were to catch ALL of those extra fish (unlikely, to say the least), the return rate would be anywhere between 50% and 80%, so lots more breeding fish for the rivers involved. Good news yes?
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Post by G Ritchie on Dec 16, 2007 19:54:28 GMT
Rod exploitation rate is typically 10 to 20%, so from your 400 extra fish running the river at £10 per fish, you will expect to catch between 40 and 80 more fish. This would work out at about £50 to £100 per rod caught fish, which is actually not too bad. Of course it would also mean more fish reaching the spawning beds, which can only help in the future.
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salmo
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Post by salmo on Dec 17, 2007 0:23:48 GMT
The cost of the fish is negligible when you think of the value of a fish is upwards of £5000 each for 5YA numbers.
It is difficult to understand why all riparian owners do not demand 100% CR when it is bound to increased the value of their asset???
salmo
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Post by fredaevans on Dec 23, 2007 4:12:36 GMT
Crap, you had to ask.
On the south bank of the Chetco (3 weeks) and it's rained buckets for the past two. More coming down as I type. Well, there is January.
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