My opinion, which doesn't mean squat....is........If you know what the fish is the person is referring too......who cares what they call it. If you intend to keep the fish you caught to eat, you're not likely about to throw a "walleye" back in because someone called it a "pickerel" or vice versa. Same thing if you catch a "steelhead" and someone calls it a "rainbow" instead. You'll keep the fish and throw that other person in the lake instead
What a person calls a fish depends a great deal on where that person is from, and what they have called that fish their entire lives, whether it is "technically or politically" correct or not. Just because some scientists or the government change the name of a fish doesn't mean people are going to stop calling it what they've been calling it for years, maybe their entire life. IE the damn debate about is it a walleye or is it a pickerel. NEITHER, it's lunch dammit......ok, maybe supper and or breakfast too..
but what we call a fish here in Ontario is not necessarily what it's called in other regions, or the other provinces and territories. IE in the NWT, the "walleye" is known by several different names........the more common ones we know, "walleye and pickerel" but it's also known as "dore and pikeperch." The northern pike is another fish that is known by different names in the NWT depending on who you're talking too and where they're from. Some call them "jackfish" others "fresh water gators," and others still simply just call them "snakes" (because of their slime.) It all depends on where they're from, and what they've been calling it their entire life. and how willing they are to adapt and change to the new name. Most people don't or won't, again, the walleye/pickerel debate. If you know what fish the person is talking about, it's not that big a deal what they call it.
What I wanna know is when are they gonna let us use gobies as bait? Every fish I've brought home this year, and some last year were just full of them. They're here, they're not going anywhere, and the fish are eating them.
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