{"id":11736,"date":"2021-10-20T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11736"},"modified":"2021-11-07T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:57:49","slug":"suckers-not-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/20\/suckers-not-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"Suckers Not Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Phys.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why some fish are ‘junk’ and others are protected. Study points to bias against native species<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Margo Rosenbaum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Rypel grew up fishing on Wisconsin’s pristine lakes and rivers. With just a worm on his hook, he caught suckers, gar, sunfish and other native fish he never saw in his game fishing magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a young age, Rypel loved all the fish species and it surprised him that others paid little attention to the\u00a0native fish<\/a>\u00a0in his area. He noticed there were stricter fishing restrictions on game fish, like walleye and trout, than the\u00a0native species<\/a>. With no bag limits on many of his favorite native species, people could harvest as many as they pleased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I learned that there were all these different types of species,” Rypel said. “Most of the fishing community focused on these select game fish species.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anglers even told young Rypel to throw the less desirable native fish up on the bank after they were caught, as they were supposedly a “problem for the ecosystem” and took resources away from highly valued game species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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