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Originally Posted by MakoMike
Simple logic. If (lets just say) one in ten thousand elvers survives to become an adult silver eel, then a fisherman could catch nine thousand elvers and not do as much damage as a bait fisherman catching one adult eel.
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Those 9000 elvers aren't just dying of natural causes, most are probably being eaten by natural predators. Remove the 9000 and the natural predators just eat the 1000 that are left.
-spence