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| From The Cutthroat's Spot |
As cutthroats are one of my favorite fish, the namesake of the site, and the species I most often fish for I am going to try to cover more cutthroat specific topics the next little while. I spent most of the late summer and fall chasing native snake river and fine spotted cutthroat in SF tributaries. I am going to try to branch out to more species the coming year as I know of some creeks north of here full of west slope cutts.
Speaking of other cutthroat species, the Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit seeking protection for threatened Colorado Cutthroat. Their suit makes the argument that the colorado Cutthroat was not listed because it is doing fairly well in it's current range, but that the historic range was not considered (size of historic range) in the decision making process. The questions then becomes would federal management of this species have better results than what is currently being accomplished by state by state management (mostly in Utah and Colorado)?
Most of the discussion from anglers and conservation groups that I am aware of considers state management a better option, but feel free to disagree and to discuss.
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I feel very inadequate to speak to the topic of whether or not state or federal agencies would be better positioned to help the Colorado Cutt (I haven't been closely following the current work being done, just the odd report here and there). I generally feel that local is preferred to federal unless the local isn't getting the job done. I'll have to get myself a little more educated about it. But I a looking forward to your forays into the westslope world.
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