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Exactly
Frank Daignault discusses genetics in several of his publications and its always a keystone of his striper management arguments. I believe his analogy says something to the effect of what farmer would slaughter his finest brood stock and save his runts? Yet another reason the slot is the way to go. Don't forget that half of those smaller fish are males. Fisheries management in freshwater lakes has proven that slots help to grow healthy populations with large fish. If a trophy category is to exist, make it a real trophy category with fish of say 48 inches or so for the taxedermist.
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