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Originally Posted by Nebe
You guys are comparing two different things. Zimmy is using the example that works best for one given year. A 4o lb fish will release more eggs per spawning than 3 28 inch bass.
Rhl's point is that those 3 28" bass could live to be 3 40 lb bass and hield more eggs in their ice time than a single dead bass.
Ont thing that hasn't been mentioned is that every single fish over 30 lbs is a female. Males never grow that large, and 1 male can fertilize the eggs of dozens of females. Killing smaller fish makes sense because you are more opt to kill a male.
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Thanks Eben, that pretty much sums it up. What I was trying to demonstrate was that there is a point at which killing greater numbers of small fish (which a slot limit can encourage) has a more detrimental impact on the long term health fishery that killing a smaller number of big fish. The killing of three 28" females vs one 40" female just happened to be a good example that. One for one it's not even a close.