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The culling of fish is something I think the biologist don't know what to do with. By killing fish of certain classes this will occur.
I have a friend in Colorado who tried to get that across to his biologist when they imposed certain size limilts that was hurting the fishing. He had two private ponds stocked with brooktrout one pond he culled all the skinny trout keeping the short fat ones and the other he kept all the long skinny fish these fish had access to spawning wates as well. After a time all the fish where all for what he culled for.
For some reason the light bulb never went on, he is also consulting for the whirling disease that is doing a lot of harm to the trout fishery in the west. Again he is trying to get them to either breed for resistant fish to this disease because not all the trout are effected. Still they don't get the point.
I think the biologist are doing the best with what tools and training they have but the standards and information they are working with is flawed.
Is it correct that the way they manage our stripebass resource is by the total biomass of the population rather than the classes of available fish.
This problem with our striped bass is getting more complicated with the people who impose the limits trying to please all, starting with allowing the size for bass to be reduced for keepers. The larger fish the commercial guys are killing should of already spawned and added their genes to the popluation. I think allowing the 36" to go 28" is going to hurt us more. Some of those 28" are carrying those big fish genes and are being denied to contribute to the gene pool.
my $.02
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