11-20-2014, 03:29 PM
[quote drowning_flys][
Never claimed to e a fish biologist it was a question Just thought if its overstocked now increasing the limit of the smaller fish would eventualy get the lake back in check along with stocking reduction. [/quote]
It certainly would help to increase harvest of smaller fish. But the most significant help would be ANY harvest of ANY fish.
When you have a healthy system those "big" fish that are lost to mortality are very quickly replaced by another fish that grows FAST and turns into another "big" fish. That's the magic spot that you want -- fast fish growth = big fish. Slow fish growth = small fish. Reduce numbers of fish (all fish) and you enter that zone of fast fish growth. The big fish will show up -- you don't need to protect them.
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Never claimed to e a fish biologist it was a question Just thought if its overstocked now increasing the limit of the smaller fish would eventualy get the lake back in check along with stocking reduction. [/quote]
It certainly would help to increase harvest of smaller fish. But the most significant help would be ANY harvest of ANY fish.
When you have a healthy system those "big" fish that are lost to mortality are very quickly replaced by another fish that grows FAST and turns into another "big" fish. That's the magic spot that you want -- fast fish growth = big fish. Slow fish growth = small fish. Reduce numbers of fish (all fish) and you enter that zone of fast fish growth. The big fish will show up -- you don't need to protect them.
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