04-01-2011, 09:39 PM
[quote monstermasher]I am just assuming a big old fat female has more eggs in it[crazy] which would mean better chance of producing more fish in the future.[/quote]
you're not taking into consideration HABITAT for natural reproduction. What is the current percentage of natural recruitment? Due to irrigation constraints, it's not as good as it historically was. So, that "big old fat female" with all those eggs doesn't really matter when it comes to reproduction.
FIX THE PROBLEM. If natural reproduction is the issue, then correct the habitat so that those eggs from the "big old fat female" can go to some good use. Until then, that big old fat female full of eggs is just going to die, and no good beneficial use will come of her.
Saving the "big" fish isn't going to help anything.
As far as your walleye fishery that was ruined by angler harvest: NAME IT. Guaranteed it wasn't in Utah -- and I'd make a wager that when you actually look at the fishery, that it wasn't over harvest by anglers that "ruined" it. I'd bet it was some other issue. My attitude is an educated attitude.
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you're not taking into consideration HABITAT for natural reproduction. What is the current percentage of natural recruitment? Due to irrigation constraints, it's not as good as it historically was. So, that "big old fat female" with all those eggs doesn't really matter when it comes to reproduction.
FIX THE PROBLEM. If natural reproduction is the issue, then correct the habitat so that those eggs from the "big old fat female" can go to some good use. Until then, that big old fat female full of eggs is just going to die, and no good beneficial use will come of her.
Saving the "big" fish isn't going to help anything.
As far as your walleye fishery that was ruined by angler harvest: NAME IT. Guaranteed it wasn't in Utah -- and I'd make a wager that when you actually look at the fishery, that it wasn't over harvest by anglers that "ruined" it. I'd bet it was some other issue. My attitude is an educated attitude.
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