01-30-2014, 10:18 PM
[quote Tangled_not]I aree with you we do need to harvest some pike. What i'm saying, is lets do it selectively.
even under the most ideal conditions, 40" pike don't grow in a year. it takes MANY years. the pike in Yuba right now are unreal, we need to protect "some" of them...[/quote]
I disagree. For one: the pike somehow managed to get to their current size under pretty liberal regulations!
The number of years is all relative. What we know is that for the last 5 years pike populations have experienced FAST growth rates. If population numbers continue to go up those growth rates will drop significantly. When they do, then those large pike will disappear -- they will never grow to those large sizes again. So, keep the population numbers down [if possible], otherwise it won't matter one bit if you protect big fish or not -- there won't be any to protect.
Keep the growth rates high, and you will have a constant flow of "big fish" replacing harvested big fish as fast as they are harvested -- pike are being recruited every year, so there is always one just waiting in line to replace that harvested "big one".
Allow populations to explode and growth rates slow, and you'll replace the lost big fish (any mortality) with small fish that grow ssssllllllloooooowwwwwwww.....
right now, harvesting a big pike isn't going to hurt a thing at Yuba.
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even under the most ideal conditions, 40" pike don't grow in a year. it takes MANY years. the pike in Yuba right now are unreal, we need to protect "some" of them...[/quote]
I disagree. For one: the pike somehow managed to get to their current size under pretty liberal regulations!
The number of years is all relative. What we know is that for the last 5 years pike populations have experienced FAST growth rates. If population numbers continue to go up those growth rates will drop significantly. When they do, then those large pike will disappear -- they will never grow to those large sizes again. So, keep the population numbers down [if possible], otherwise it won't matter one bit if you protect big fish or not -- there won't be any to protect.
Keep the growth rates high, and you will have a constant flow of "big fish" replacing harvested big fish as fast as they are harvested -- pike are being recruited every year, so there is always one just waiting in line to replace that harvested "big one".
Allow populations to explode and growth rates slow, and you'll replace the lost big fish (any mortality) with small fish that grow ssssllllllloooooowwwwwwww.....
right now, harvesting a big pike isn't going to hurt a thing at Yuba.
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