Talk:Bonytail chub

Opposing reintroduction
The editorial in the Pueblo Chieftain, mentioned in the article, said the following. --Bejnar 17:52, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * "Since 1983 the Pueblo Board of Water Works has been helping pay for a program to restore the numbers of four species of native fish on the Colorado River -- on the Western Slope. The board this week agreed to continue this support, to the tune of $11,500 for the year. These are the same fish that the government once tried to get rid of: the Colorado pikeminnow, bonytail chub, humpback chub and razorback sucker. In a phrase, they are "trash fish.""

It is an undesirable fish. Most of the effort put into recovering it has gone toward the killing of sportfish. Hundreds of thousands of bass, pike, trout, catfish, and desirable sportfish have been killed by government officials seeking to "recover" the bonytail. It's done nothing to help the fish. The only thing it has accomplished is to anger the public and enrage anglers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.57.57.142 (talk • contribs)


 * WP is not a platform for advocacy. If you have factual material to cite, let's add that. Stan 14:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

The above was not advocacy, but fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.3.8.2 (talk • contribs)

"trash fish" is a completely arbitrary term, and can never be given as 'fact'. Bonytail chub was actually a prized food and sport fish among the first European settlers to the Colorado River basin and a prized food fish of the natives. One wonders how these fish would be treated today if the introduced fishes were never stocked. Who wants to catch the same fish everywhere they go? People travel from all over the world to places like Australia to catch barramundi. A species that is unique, and could be considered quite ugly. Would Australia miss this sport fishing industry if it had tried to eradicate their "trash fish". Brk828 22:44, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Bonytail and Barramundi are not comparable at all on any scale. Bonytails are small fish that are neither edible nor sportfish. They are not very different from other species of chubs. Most people don't give a hoot about them and would rather catch bass, pike, trout, and catfish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.166.224.192 (talk) 22:09, 8 November 2007 (UTC)