Yankee Troller

To my knowledge, the agreement states we can only stock a X amount. That was set a long time ago (pre-cuts).

I'd like to start out with I was in 100% support of stocking cuts with the information that was provided by the USGS and NYS DEC after the really cold Winters of 13/14 or 14/15 (can't remember which two years they were). Back then, we had NO North shore trawls. Our assessment boats checked the same transects year in and year out. Since then our baitfish assessment/trawls have expanded to both shorelines, embayment's, and more transects on the South shore. From what I can see, during cold Winters the North shore trawls have been showing more Alewife biomass vs the South Shore. My questions is, could that have been the case during those two cold Winter? We'll never know, but the data seems to line up. Fast forward to this years assessment/trawls, and we show a biomass we haven't seen in sometime. Why isn't bringing the stocking back to our agreed upon numbers on the table?

If you haven't seen the video I've posted the link below. I was trying to embed it into this post, but I couldn't figure that out. Maybe someone more computer savvy can below. I apologize if you don't have Facebook and can't see it. I find it interesting that certain NYS DEC biologist belittle you when you try to bring up genetics at meetings. Instead of studying it, like a scientist is supposed to do, their answer is there is no proof to support that genetics matter. I attend every meeting I can, and a certain biologist has said this numerous times, and at times has raised his voice spouting this out. We have a hatchery that is outdated and run down, and the people there do an amazing job with what they have, but telling us your milking jacks becasue they have superior sperm drives me nuts. Is this part of the reason we are seeing smaller and smaller Chinook on Lake Ontario. We don't need thousands of Salmon to meet the egg quota. Why can't we be more selective? https://www.facebook.com/reel/1662888131070674 10th Place LOC Salmon Weight 20th Place LOC Salmon Weight Year Fall Summer Spring Year Fall Summer Spring 2025 27.10 27.15 22.00 2025 26.08 26.07 20.10 2024 27.02 25.04 22.03 2024 26.05 24.10 20.10 2023 27.05 26.02 21.10 2023 26.07 25.02 20.07 2022 27.15 27.00 22.10 2022 27.04 26.01 22.08 2021 29.03 28.04 24.10 2021 27.15 26.11 23.08 2020 28.04 28.06 COVID 2020 27.14 27.04 COVID 2019 29.12 27.15 21.01 2019 28.13 27.00 20.02 2018 29.05 25.12 21.06 2018 28.11 25.04 20.01 2017 30.08 27.09 21.11 2017 29.09 26.01 20.06 2016 32.01 28.11 21.11 2016 31.04 27.07 20.06 2015 29.02 25.15 20.12 2015 28.04 25.06 20.06 2014 30.04 27.04 21.04 2014 29.03 25.02 20.06 2013 33.04 32.01 26.00 2013 32.11 30.09 24.11 2012 32.09 31.07 27.04 2012 31.11 30.03 25.15 2011 32.04 29.00 23.14 2011 31.06 28.00 20.02 2010 34.06 No Data No Data 2010 33.02 No Data No Data 2009 31.15 26.02 No Data 2009 No Data 25.09 No Data 2005 30.01 No Data No Data 2005 29.06 No Data No Data Average 29.84 27.44 22.35 Average 28.78 26.42 21.07

Use everything you have. I've never seen where taking a rigger out of the game helped. If it's that your restricted to 6 rods then I'd start with 2 riggers, 2 divers, and 2 junk lines.

If ya want a new one let me know. I sell Mercury and Yamaha.

Yup as long as the 943xsv in the back of the boat is turned on. I can drop ship one to you if you'd like. $1400 + tax. The transducer would be $300 + tax.

Once you buy an XSV model you can use your 8012 as a duplicator screen for sonar. Connect them with a Network cable and they will share everything. I'd also connect the new unit to the N2K Network.

So ECHOMAP isn't an option becasue of the radar. GPSMAP 1243xsv would be the way to go. That will run the radar, AP, get your engine info (which is N2K), and play your Fusion (this uses N2K as well, but can also add Garmin Network to transfer album artwork from the radio to the head unit).

Yes, that does not include the transducer. This is why I don't sell units with out sonar (xsv). You could list all that stuff that came with the boat on EBAY and buy a new 1243xsv or 93sv/106sv and do exactly what you did before.

I think you would need a sonar module (GSD 24) for the traditional sonar which makes it a network transducer. I assume the 8012 has two Ethernet ports on the back? If so the GCV is probably using one of them. You'd connect the GSD 24 to the other.