[Bow Boat launch press release today, anybody see something]

Quite peculiar that the access management plan (at least if you read the actual plan) mentions so many data deficiencies except that fishing might be a potentially important stressor given the recent knowledge of the trout declines...Fishing for votes before the upcoming election cycle? 

[Bow River Trout Populations May Be In Decline]

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On 15/06/2018 at 10:09 AM, fishteck said:

The argument that more boat ramps will give more people access to the fishery and thus increase fishing pressure has also been debated. More designated public boat ramps across the entire length of the Bow River should spread out the fishing pressure on those section of the river that have access. This surely would improve fish survival.

Is this true? As in, is there actually peer-reviewed science that supports this statement?  I'd love to see the evidence behind this statement...

On its face, this statement certainly makes no sense--why would increasing access "spread out" the fishing effort and "surely improve fish survival" when most of the fishing occurs in a pretty standard stretch of the river, anyway?  

-The Doubting Trout