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shindig

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Here in WA state they pay you $8 per fish to catch an invasive species, and the top fish-catcher for the past years average $75k - $78k dollars catching the infamous "pikeminnow".


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The top 20 anglers each year make $17k - $42k catching them.

http://www.pikeminnow.org/

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"What do you do for a living?"

"I'm a top 10 pikeminnow fisherman"

lmfao I was made aware of all this when someone actually said, "I'm a top 20 pikeminnow fisherman". hahahahahahhahah and it's fucking real.

So now you can actually legally smoke weed while fishing and get paid for your efforts in this state...
 


I don't know anything about fish, but what prevents people from breeding their own schools of pikeminnow and catching them? This seems like an incentive that's bound to backfire.
 
KennyPowers said:
I don't know anything about fish, but what prevents people from breeding their own schools of pikeminnow and catching them? This seems like an incentive that's bound to backfire.
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That was my first thought! But they have to be over 12" or some shit so you'll be growing them for 5 years to cash in.

The program has been running for 15 years and it's only open 5 months of the year...so the money paid out is for a few months of fishing.....

This year they're raising the payout significantly. Last year if you caught 400 minnows you got around $2k, this year you get $3k.

Then the state puts tags on a bunch of fish that are worth $500 each if you catch one, to give incentive to fishermen to try to catch them.

I've heard of people who take a few months off during the year to go catch these fish, but I always assumed it was a couple hundred bucks total.

Looking at the catch records the average person catches around 10.5/day, if you're a gifted pikeminnow fisherman you could make two or three times that per day. Or if you go out at night with a net hehe

Fraggler said:
25 fish/day? They sure these blokes don't have a breeding program happening in a closed off water system somewhere? lol

I hope they've at least worked out the burn / reproductive rate.
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You don't have to catch 25/day to get the higher rate, it's for the season, if you catch 25 between May-Sept you get $5 each, if you catch 200 or more over that time you get $8 per fish, they want them gone.

lol
 
shindig said:
That was my first thought! But they have to be over 12" or some shit so you'll be growing them for 5 years to cash in.

The program has been running for 15 years and it's only open 5 months of the year...so the money paid out is for a few months of fishing.....

This year they're raising the payout significantly. Last year if you caught 400 minnows you got around $2k, this year you get $3k.

Then the state puts tags on a bunch of fish that are worth $500 each if you catch one, to give incentive to fishermen to try to catch them.

I've heard of people who take a few months off during the year to go catch these fish, but I always assumed it was a couple hundred bucks total.

Looking at the catch records the average person catches around 10.5/day, if you're a gifted pikeminnow fisherman you could make two or three times that per day. Or if you go out at night with a net hehe



You don't have to catch 25/day to get the higher rate, it's for the season, if you catch 25 between May-Sept you get $5 each, if you catch 200 or more over that time you get $8 per fish, they want them gone.

lol
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Step 1: Buy lake or huge pond somewhere where land's cheap.
Step 2: Change the environment so that it's conducive for breeding (kill off any species higher up on the food chain).
Step 3: Dump a bunch of pikeminnow into the lake.
Step 4: Wait 5 years
Step 5: Make $75k a year until the government changes its laws.

It's full-proof!

Not really, but an interesting concept.
 
KennyPowers said:
Step 1: Buy lake or huge pond somewhere where land's cheap.
Step 2: Change the environment so that it's conducive for breeding (kill off any species higher up on the food chain).
Step 3: Dump a bunch of pikeminnow into the lake.
Step 4: Wait 5 years
Step 5: Make $75k a year until the government changes its laws.

It's full-proof!

Not really, but an interesting concept.
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Step 6: Spend $515k to make $108k. But now own land. Tell friends it's a "long term investment"

Step 7: Continue wondering why 'things just don't work out'
 
I'm sure with some good food, steroids, hormones and some other goodies you could get their time to maturity down to 2.5-3 years.
 
Sonny Forelli said:
Step 6: Spend $515k to make $108k. But now own land. Tell friends it's a "long term investment"

Step 7: Continue wondering why 'things just don't work out'
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Even doing this, you're going to have to introduce new fish, else you'll have issues with limited diversity that the biologists will probably catch on to. Plus stuff like Pure Salmon Campaign - Raising the Standards for Farm-Raised Fish, since fish are dirty, going around dropping fish logs all over and all of that.
 
I live up here in the gorge and yes, they pay good money for people to fish. If you go down to the Booneville damn area there are tons of fishermen out there doing specifically this.
 
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