CT Trophy Carp Regs - Urgent Update!

[Savayman]

Trophy Carp Regulations update!

Please visit: 

https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/CommDocTmyBillAllComm.asp?bill=HB-05360&doc_year=2018

If you submitted testimony please check to see if it was added.

If not please send and an email as follows:

Please send you email to: envtestimony@cga.ct.gov

Subject line: HB 5360 exceptions to Trophy Carp Regulations

I am against the exceptions for bow fishing introduced and added to HB 5360, especially for the Connecticut River & its Coves.

As a catch & release angler I fully support and endorse the legislation to create Trophy Carp Waters and Creel Limits for common carp.

The Connecticut river offers an exceptional opportunity to create a trophy carp water without impacting other fish species or the water quality. As noted by DEEP Fisheries scientists common carp rarely, if ever, pose any issues to water quality in Connecticut & surrounding New England states. Since their introduction in the 1800’s common carp have become naturalized and their spawn and fry provide exceptional food resources for other fish and wildlife. Where you find big carp you invariably find big bass, walleye, pike, perch and other species.

The killing of many hundreds of trophy carp by bow fishers during the spawn is not only highly detrimental to creating a trophy carp fishery but has been documented to result in potential problems due to an increased biomass of smaller carp.

The rapid growth in catch and release trophy carp fishing and the creation of Trophy carp waters, especially the CT River, is of significant economic importance to Connecticut.

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Please indicate if you travel to carp fish in CT?

[Savayman]

Exception to bow fishing attached to HB #5360

[Franky]

Sent, thanks Iain

[philaroman]

WOW...  ANY bow-fishing, for ANY species in a Wildlife Management Area (aside from brief, rare, special-circumstance population control...  maybe once a decade, if needed) -- WTF is wrong w/ Connecticut???

Edited March 24, 2018 by philaroman

[NJ - Ryan Munn]

Hmm.. I sent an email a while ago but I'm not on the list. Am I too late?

[(TN) Cannonball]

I sent in a reply before but I wasn't on the list.  I cut-and-pasted the info and forwarded it to CT. 

Edited March 25, 2018 by (TN) Cannonball

[Savayman]

I’ll be providing an update end of this week on the next steps we need to take. Still not letting this go through without a fight!

[BobWhite]

Thanks Iain