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Originally Posted by from the (aptly named)numbskull school of fishery management
No matter how bad the conditions, some percentage of the total eggs laid turn into fish every year. If you double the number of eggs laid (by doubling the number of breeders) that same percentage results in twice as many YOY unless there is a severe limiting food shortage......which is hard to believe since larvae are very small and eat plankton.
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You ass-U-me that some percentage of the total eggs will turn into fish. We don't know that, for all we know doubling, tripling or quadrupling the number of eggs will increase the YOY index by zero. We don't know what causes the failure to turn eggs into fish. But by your logic we should shut down all fishing on the hope that it will somehow increase the YOY incises.
Sorry I'm not willing to deny the pleasure of striped bass fishing to millions of fishermen, on some untested and unscientific theory.
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