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Why don't they want Muskies? It seems to be too a near miss for No More Muskies. This needs to stop.
Muskies won’t make county ballot
By Joe Albert
Staff Writer
Alexandria, Minn. — The Douglas County Board, for a second time, has elected not to get in the middle of the muskie controversy on Lake Miltona.
The board last Thursday declined to put a non-binding referendum on the Nov. 2 ballot. The No More Muskies group asked for the referendum, which would have gauged voters’ opinion on muskie stocking.
“We, in good conscience, couldn’t see putting out an opinion poll, so to speak,” said County Commissioner Dan Olson. “We voted not to do that.”
One county commissioner made a motion to place the question on the ballot, but the issue died due to lack of a second. The referendum — no matter what its outcome — would not have carried the weight of law.
“It would have been nice to put a complete stop to this whole deal,” said Brad Hoppe, a muskie guide and regional vice president for the Vikingland Chapter of Muskies, Inc. “But I don’t know that we are going to see that here.”
Had the referendum gone in No More Muskies’ favor, it would have asked the DNR to discontinue its muskie stocking efforts in Douglas County. The DNR has compromised with the anti-muskie group in past years, lowering the number of muskies it stocks and stocking every other year, said Dean Beck, DNR area fisheries supervisor in Glenwood.
At the meeting — which drew many people from both sides of the muskie debate — the board encouraged No More Muskies to do some polling of its own.
The group’s John Davis said that’s not an option.
“If we did do that, the DNR would say it’s not legitimate,” Davis said.
Despite the setback, Davis said neither the stocking issue nor No More Muskies is going away.
“We’ll be back, there’s no doubt,” he said. “If anybody thinks we are going away, they are wrong.”
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Location: Woodstock, IL | I don't know specifics about this group, but it is more than likely a group of fisherman that feel muskies eat all of the walleye and panfish, leaving few for them. This is the same mentality people have that think wolves and bear eat all of the livestock and deer. They typically don't want to hear about "natural balance". | |
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