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Originally Posted by MakoMike
Before you condemn the elver fishery consider that only about 1 in 10,000 elvers ever makes it to adulthood!
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And when you take a year like 2012, when the Maine harvest was about 3.4 million elvers, zero of those make it to adulthood. ~3.3 million of which would have been consumed in the food chain. Now they aren't available as energy in the system and the few elvers left unharvested face even greater pressure. Good point if you leave out the "before you condemn" part.