05-20-2019, 09:04 PM
[quote kentofnsl]Are you saying the recovery is going faster than if they would have poisoned it? [/quote]
[quote wiperhunter2]LOL, than poisoning it, if they had poisoned it at the same time as they stocked the predator fish. [/quote]
Wiperhunter -- sorry, but that's not necessarily correct. If they had poisoned it in 2017, then immediately restocked the exact same fish that they stocked in 2017, what would the difference today be?
The difference today would be that those same fish would have had faster growth rates due to the removal of chubs. The predator fish (tiger musky, wipers) would have preyed on stocked rainbow trout and a small population of chubs, due to doing only a single rotenone treatment and thus not 100% kill. Growth rates turn high, which equals FAST growth rates which equals big fish.
We'd still be ahead of the current plan of "patience".
I'll give the DWR credit: They are doing a fantastic job of promoting their fisheries plan at Scofield. It (the plan) is working. They are convincing many an angler how great the plan is working -- even if it is behind the alternative.
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[quote wiperhunter2]LOL, than poisoning it, if they had poisoned it at the same time as they stocked the predator fish. [/quote]
Wiperhunter -- sorry, but that's not necessarily correct. If they had poisoned it in 2017, then immediately restocked the exact same fish that they stocked in 2017, what would the difference today be?
The difference today would be that those same fish would have had faster growth rates due to the removal of chubs. The predator fish (tiger musky, wipers) would have preyed on stocked rainbow trout and a small population of chubs, due to doing only a single rotenone treatment and thus not 100% kill. Growth rates turn high, which equals FAST growth rates which equals big fish.
We'd still be ahead of the current plan of "patience".
I'll give the DWR credit: They are doing a fantastic job of promoting their fisheries plan at Scofield. It (the plan) is working. They are convincing many an angler how great the plan is working -- even if it is behind the alternative.
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