Please call your legislator!!!

[Gill-T]

https://porcupinesoup.com/fish-poachers-get-a-free-pass

[Gill-T]

Probably some form of appeasement for this

 

https://sportshandle.com/ny-tribes-rfa/

[McWally]

Hearsay, but from a good source said a deal between Hochul and the Reservation let these dudes walk. 

[justtracytrolling]

Absolutely ridiculous and they are laughing at us... they will wipeout every fish they can just to spite us.  This should not be any one person's decision whether or not to enforce the law.  Those walleye are not property of the DEC and they shouldn't be allowed to decide for all of us what happens to our public resource.  Just as stupid as attempting to eradicate walleye in skaneatles where they are 100 percent self sustaining and thriving in favor of stocking more trout with hardly any return on investment.  Let's just waste the resource and spend more money on a species that is not native to the area in any way and then wonder why they are cyclical in these lakes that aren't suited nearly as well for trout as they are walleye.  Oh and on top of it they will never get those walleye all out and they reproduce like crazy there.  Not too mention if the DEC can't even figure out whether or not there is walleye reproduction in a lake how are they gonna eradicate them....Seems like some basic walleye knowledge would be necessary which obviously they do not possess!  They could net every tributary and that won't get more than half of the spawners as walleye lake spawn very effectively.  

[Gill-T]

This is a political move. If the offending group were Amish, arrests would have been made.  The DEC are upset as hell as their legs were chopped out from under them and the ramifications it will have towards enforcing future poaching cases.  Under Cuomo, there has been a march towards getting rid of DEC Officers in favor of rangers. The ranger division wants all the same pay but does not want to carry guns and have to enforce the laws.