Save Spear Fishing in Wisconsin

[Tamara Thomsen]

Hey Wisconsin Divers- Do you like spear fishing? You're going to need to show up in person TONIGHT (April 9) at one of the DNRs Wisconsin Conservation Congress County Meetings to show your opposition to QUESTION 76

QUESTION 76-Prohibit the Spearing of Panfish by Divers (# 500211). Presently, skin and scuba divers can spear panfish in the State of Wisconsin waters. Panfish daily bag limits have been reduced on 40 individual water bodies statewide and in St. Croix County over the past several years to protect panfish species. There are some who feel that it is relatively easy to spear panfish while diving and their ability to remove the largest of each panfish species has had a negative effect on panfish populations and size structure.
76. Do you support modifying the fishing regulations to include “panfish” as a fish that cannot be taken by spearing in all Wisconsin waters? YES _____ NO ______

The question is worded in a biased nature and this proposed regulation is NOT even scientifically based. Here are the locations of the places you need to go in each county: