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  3. Creation of more Conservation Officers.

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    I don't think so Phil... based a 250 day work year, in order to "pay" for themselves. they would have to write approx. $700.00 worth of fines per working day.

    They may reach that on a weekend, especially in the winter where anglers are pretty much bunched up in a few places, but even then, it's very rare to see one C.O.. I've seen them mostly in pairs, which puts their team into the $350,000.00 per anum range.

    Plus, based on fines levied on site and by the courts, it seems to me that there just isn't enough money moving to cover their costs.

    HH

     

     

    Up the fines and everything will be balanced... :dunno:

  14. Brown Trout Question

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    Both fish are brown trout.

     

    Fish are no different than humans, in that there can be considerable variation in their physical appearance. Some are thicker, some are thinner, some have more or less pigmentation (aka skin colouration), and where some people may have minor differences in their eye colour, trout may have minor differences in their spotting patterns. You see two guys standing side-by-side fishing, and one's short, fat and bald while his buddy is tall, skinny and hairy as a Golden Retriever. Guess what? They're both the same species.

     

    Same deal with these two fish. Just one is a little hairier than the other one.

     

    Dave's point is also well taken. There is clearly an age difference between those two fish.

     

    For what it's worth, the most fool-proof way to tell a brown from an Atlantic is to look inside its mouth. Atlantic salmon always have a thin, pointy tongue that looks almost spear-like, where browns always have a flat, squared tongue that looks more like a thumb nail with teeth on it. Things like colour, shape and spotting patterns are highly variable. The tongue is not.

     

     

    How can you say these fish are both brown trout and then go on to say the best way to tell is to look at the tongue?

    I cant see the tongue.. :dunno:

     

    The second fish is a rainbow...

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