How Do You Deal With Nuisance Fish?

[Fun4Me]

White bass aren't an ANS fish, white perch are. From the KDWPT website regarding ANS fish species;

 

K.A.R. 115-18-10: Protect Kansas from nuisance species. You cannot import, possess, or release the listed live wildlife species without a permit.

 

 

I mistyped, I had bass on my mind LOL!!. I indeed meant white perch.

 

So, If I'm fishing for any species at El Dorado, or any place where white perch is posted, and catch one, I have to do something other than release it back into the water alive? Can I just knife it and throw it back in? 

 

I'm heading to El Dorado this weekend, I'll talk to someone and post whatever I find out.

[Neil McCauley]

Do you know that bass are invasive in certain reservoirs?

"Invaisive" is a somewhat meaningless term in regards to man-made bodies of water.

[Felix77]

 "Nuisance Fish" to me are the One's I Can't Catch ~

 

 

 

A-Jay

Exactly ... LOL.  This is what I was going to say.  

[Bluebasser86]

I mistyped, I had bass on my mind LOL!!. I indeed meant white perch.

 

So, If I'm fishing for any species at El Dorado, or any place where white perch is posted, and catch one, I have to do something other than release it back into the water alive? Can I just knife it and throw it back in? 

 

I'm heading to El Dorado this weekend, I'll talk to someone and post whatever I find out.

If you cut the heads off and make sure to deflate the swim bladder and toss it back the blues and channels in the lake will handle the rest. 

[tholmes]

At some of the lakes around here, Zebra mussels and white perch are on the list. I just didn't know if I was doing the lake a disservice by releasing a white perch back into the lake, as opposed to just eating it or disposing it by some other means.

 

AFAIK, it's illegal to release white perch in any lake in Kansas. You can't even have them alive in your posession or use them as bait. 

They are pretty good eatin' though.

 

Tom

[Fun4Me]

AFAIK, it's illegal to release white perch in any lake in Kansas. You can't even have them alive in your posession or use them as bait. 

They are pretty good eatin' though.

 

Tom

 

I thought one could use them as bait as long as they're not alive? Meaning I could catch one, cut it up and go catfishing.

 

I guess I was just wondering about the letter of the law as it's written. If it's technically illegal to posses a live one, then I would think the man could just hover around an angler until he/she caught one either intentionally or by mistake, and ticket them for possessing a live white perch. I can't imagine they would do that however. The way I read it on the KDWPT website makes me think that they're talking about taking live fish away from the lake to release them somewhere else, thus needing a permit to do so.

 

I'm under the impression, and I will verify it before I do it, that I can catch a white perch and throw it back into the lake alive and be fine, or I can catch a white perch cut it up and throw it back and be fine also, if I decide not to eat it. 

[dead end canal]

Some moron released Rio Grande cichlids into a local bayou here. It outcompetes native species for habitat and bedding areas. When they move in, wildlife officials tend to see a decline in the reproductive success of native species like the sunfish.

 

So when I catch them, I give as many as I can to a biologist at the University of New Orleans who's working to find a way to eradicate them. And if I can't get them to him, they become fertilizer.

 

But I don't toss them at cars speeding down my street, no matter what anyone says.

[Bluebasser86]

I thought one could use them as bait as long as they're not alive? Meaning I could catch one, cut it up and go catfishing.

 

I guess I was just wondering about the letter of the law as it's written. If it's technically illegal to posses a live one, then I would think the man could just hover around an angler until he/she caught one either intentionally or by mistake, and ticket them for possessing a live white perch. I can't imagine they would do that however. The way I read it on the KDWPT website makes me think that they're talking about taking live fish away from the lake to release them somewhere else, thus needing a permit to do so.

 

I'm under the impression, and I will verify it before I do it, that I can catch a white perch and throw it back into the lake alive and be fine, or I can catch a white perch cut it up and throw it back and be fine also, if I decide not to eat it. 

Post #25 on here that I copy and pasted straight from Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks website;

 

From the KDWPT website regarding ANS fish species;

 

K.A.R. 115-18-10: Protect Kansas from nuisance species. You cannot import, possess, or release the listed live wildlife species without a permit.

 

Cut and dry straight from the states website. You can not legally catch and release an ANS species in the state of Kansas. You can always email the state on their website for further clarification. All the GWs I've spoken to on the issue were very cut and dry about it that it's against the law to release them. 

 

As far as them writing tickets for someone catching one, you don't "possess" a fish just by catching it. A fish is in your possession once it's in a bucket, livewell, cooler, or on a stringer. If they see you catch one and toss it alive into your livewell they very may well write you a ticket. 

[no39]

I'm curious to see what criteria has to be met for a fish to be considered a nuisance species.   I live in New York so I don't have those jumping carp which are probably a danger more than a nuisance, but here they stock chinook salmon, coho salmon, brown trout, and the ubiquitous rainbow trout.  Which apparently don't compete with native species in any way. 

[Fun4Me]

Bluebasser:

 

I did indeed see the copy/paste from post #25, and I'm not trying to say that your wrong, I just want to make sure I do the right thing when it comes to legality. I've never fished anywhere that I had to kill a fish I caught, or risk a ticket. It's just new to me that's all. 

[BucketMouth15]

If you kill a fish and leave it out, some scavenger is going to have an easy meal. That's the way I look at it.