Its all about money. The DCNR implements all this wordy bullschit into a simple activity to collect revenue and disguise it as research. If you wanna tell me its not about revenue, screw off. Its another ticket to write.
Look up the studies they do on the rivers. Most are 9-10 pages of third grade reading material. Meanwhile, municipalities dump sewage, businesses dump hundreds of gallons of sulfuric acid into the black warrior river, and there's no quote from them on that. They want to talk about the new dumbass monitoring program they're rolling out. On average hunters.