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Hopefully this is When Alberta is going to start regulating guides and guide days. My forehead vein bulges every time I have to think about the fisheries here trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to management, when all they have to do is look west.

The creel survey last year wasn't an accident..

I would need to see the "three different quantitative models " to decide on the seriousness of the problem. My first thought is perhaps the spawning grounds in the Highwood River might be under pressure. Have the rainbow spawning grounds been looked at in this study? There are a lot of factors involved and how do weight each stressors in your quantitative model? The thing that worries me is they say don't know from their model/data what caused the population decline but are quick to suggest an easy "fix" of limiting fishing? Perhaps there are more serious factors in decline that need addressing as well.