LWF Employees have joined efforts with the Louisiana Division of Wildlife and Fisheries and shall be taking part within the 2025 LDWF Black Bass Administration Plan (BBMP) Stakeholders Working Group in an effort to help LDWF with growing an actionable framework that goals to keep up wholesome Largemouth and Noticed Bass populations all through the state, whereas growing methods to enhance angler satisfaction and enhance Louisiana’s status as a premiere vacation spot for leisure black bass fishing. The aim of the BBMP is to establish, prioritize, and implement focused methods to guard, promote, and improve black bass populations and black bass angling alternatives in Louisiana for the good thing about the general public.
The primary assembly of the BBMP Stakeholder’s Working Group was lately held on the Booker Fowler Hatchery in Woodworth, La., and was hosted by LDWF Black Bass Coordinator Zane LeBlanc. The working group is comprised of 15 members with all kinds of stakeholders, together with representatives from the skilled black bass fishing neighborhood, native freshwater guides, bass membership representatives, out of doors media personalities, authorities companions, and wildlife conservation teams. The BBMP Stakeholder Group will convene month-to-month to make sure a various perspective and contribute their experience to the event of the BBMP.
The event and implementation of the BBMP is the accountability of the LDWF Inland Fisheries Part with technical help and native enter from Inland Fisheries Employees Biologists and oversight by the Inland Fisheries Part Administration. One of many main targets of the Fisheries Employees is to make the most of the Stakeholder Working Group and the general public to assist establish points and kind key areas for enhancements. The unique plan will span ten years and can function a blueprint for Inland Fisheries to realize measurable enhancements in key areas of bass administration recognized by way of the planning course of.
The aim of the BBMP shall be to enhance bass administration for the good thing about the general public. As such, together with the general public and stakeholder teams within the course of has been recognized as important to the event and future success of the plan. One of many main instruments that shall be utilized by the LDWF Employees would be the execution of a complete bass angling survey that shall be applied throughout the Stakeholder Working Group course of. After the event of questions recognized as necessary to the BBMP, the survey shall be made obtainable for the general public starting November 19, 2025, and shall be obtainable for completion by way of December 1, 2025. The data collected shall be a vital piece of the BBMP framework. The place attainable, and achievable, feedback shall be applied into the ultimate actionable methods of the plan. Upon launch, LWF will help with offering data to the method and spotlight the chance to take part on social media and our web site.
The Federation commends LDWF for his or her continued efforts to keep up transparency within the BBMP planning course of and helps efforts to keep up pathways for communications and successfully characterize impacted stakeholders.
Questions? Contact Rick Owens, LWF’s Advocacy Supervisor, at rick@lawildlifefed.org for extra data.
