05-17-2021, 01:50 PM
(05-17-2021, 12:15 AM)Therapist Wrote: You are not going to hurt the SMB population by keeping a limit of 8-10 inch fish, infact you will be helping it. Our SMB populations are stunted in many waters, Lake Powell, Rockport, Echo, etc. so keeping those smaller ones will not hurt the population. It is keeping the 2-3 lb fish that hurts the recruitment. Jordanelle is a case in point. It was producing 5-6lb SMB in it's early years, but people would keep all those large females and the size of the average fish is small now. Remember, those large fish have the genetics to produce big fish, so if you take em out of the system, you are left with genetics that produce smaller fish.
Got any reliable articles to back up your conclusions?