Comments on: Commercial Fishing Returns to Lake Tahoe, to Combat an Invasive Species

By: Geack

Geack — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:54:56 +0000

mrbill,

I think you have this exactly backwards – animals become extinct when their value dead is higher than their value alive. People don’t kill elephants because they’re worthless – they kill them because they’re worth a small fortune as ivory, skin, and umbrella stands. Yes, it’s good to find some non-dead value in endangered animals (like tourism instead of hunting), but what’s happening in Tahoe is only useful when you WANT to exterminate something.

By: jo bling

jo bling — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:12:11 +0000

Put some largemouth or any kind of black bass in there and your crayfish problem will be gone in no time.

By: RKW

RKW — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:36:40 +0000

Yep, plenty of crayfish there. We catch and cook them each summer as a family tradition though we catch them on the west side of the lake in about 20′ of water so not on the Nevada side of the lake. Had never heard that they cause clouding of the lake and don’t think the California enviros admit it even if true as Nevada decided to permit commercial catches w/o approval of the CA members of the Joint Board.

By: Mark L

Mark L — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:03:02 +0000

You get a line and I’ll get a pole,
And we’ll all go down to the crawdad hole.
Honey, oh babe, be mine.

By: mrbill

mrbill — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:38:59 +0000

They could do the same with a lot of this stuff…IF they would make them worth money or make them private property with value. If they are “common property” then no one takes care of them. The elephants could likely be taken care of if they would allow hunting for a few and give the ownership to the local native etc. they have done that with others by giving ownership and therefore giving them value. If they have no value….then poof, they wont be taken care of. A lot of these things could be self sustaining and prosper if valued by someone besides the green wienies at Sierra Club etc.

Yes, I know there is crying over hunting…but there would be more crying when the last on dies off au-natural.

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:22:55 +0000

Do they know how to cook crawfish in Nevada? Or is a crayfish different?

By: A. Tahoe Crawdad

A. Tahoe Crawdad — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:49:37 +0000

Most of the hoi-polloi’s who have homes on or around the Lake only eat Lobster and think we are peasant hillbilly food, so no problem there.

But when the peasant hillbillies drive up to the Lake from the California side,
where theres a crawdad festival in every other town every other weekend, we’re done.

See ya!

By: EBL

EBL — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:20:39 +0000

Anything that gets Nevadans and Californians off beef is a victory for me! Eat those crawdaddies up!

By: Lowell McCormick

Lowell McCormick — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:14:58 +0000

I can’t believe you have crayfish and haven’t been eating them. I’m from New Orleans and crayfish and seafood were Friday staples (everyone was Catholic at one time). Friday is still seafood day in our neck of the woods. Traditions die hard. Be sure to try boiling them in Zatarain’s Crab and Shrimp Boil.

And don’t forget to, “Suck da heads and squeeze da tails”. Talk about good.

Lowell

By: eman

eman — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:30:58 +0000

i love it– looks like the greenies have learned how to really conquer the issue of invasive species — make it financially beneficial to people to catch these things.

bravo ! we need to learn to harness capitalism.