10-17-2009, 04:34 PM
Interesting that you would ask that question, because I posed that very question to the F & G fellow, who was a fisheries biologist before becoming director, and the Reader's Digest version of an answer is that there are so many variables, known and unknown, that you can't really say without a lot of specific research. I know a lot of people have wondered why the perch couldn't be found this year compared to previous years, and yet the crappie were thick. Competition between the two species??? They still can't give a definitive answer about the record steelhead and salmon runs this year either. I think fishery biology is a lot like my field of psychology: 2/5 science and 3/5 b.s.!!! Mike
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