Here is my reply I posted on FB... ( edited )What a lot of smokescreen bullsh@t! This is a vendetta against bass / bass anglers alike ...remember the saying " some people cause their own storms and then gets upset when it rains"...well this is pretty much it, for Werner,Andre, parks board and Loskop. Bass and Carp was introduced into most of our waters by Parks board in the sixties late seventies. I have documented proof ( books of Fauna & Flora ) of the amounts of bass and carps stocked in different dams and what the ratio and growth rates would be. Funny enough the two ( actually 3 including trout ) species they stocked, that brings in the most capital for many people, are now their enemies. If this shooting of bass was for research. show us the findings please Andre Hoffmann? ...Not some lame ass excuse letter form some guy...furthermore Werner...remember the uproar with Cecil the Lion, well this is even worse...If it was for "research", why brag with it on social media, surely you could have realized the "shitstorm" it was going to cause? You must take the hammering now unfortunately for being a bigger "d@@s" than a certain guy wearing a red beret...killing female bass full of eggs, with a very good genetic strain is just plain stupid and unethical. Catch and relocate the big bass to a closed off area instead of culling would be a better option. Give the bass anglers permits to transport and relocate bass then? The amount of comps held at Loskop annually and the poor fishcare taken is also a waste of good Kurper breeding stock and genes, All I see is big dead kurpers, no releases...why not rather cull the cormarant populations, they can take kurpers of up to 1 kgs ( the breeding stock ), most bass cant...why dont parks board get balls and sort the mining pollution out? The bass might be responsible for the dissapearance of some micro species etc, but so too are locals with nets or fishing with reeds, kingfishers, Monitor lizzards, cranes, Herons, crabs, Fisheagles, water scorpions, Blue and redbreasted kurper, Barbel, eels and yellowfish, to name a few...
Pollution and dropping waterlevels with lower oxygen levels alao causes fish to die, and it is almost always the smaller species or fish that die first!Loskop
was very empty just 3-4 years back...
Please publish the authority letter to use govt property and/or fuel..I am a taxpayer and pay my taxes, so Werner and Andre ( and the rest of the guys involved ), I and the rest of the bass fishing fraternity indirectly pay your salaries or fund your "research"...I / We demand value for our money, now show us the research and findings...?