Pike Production Factors

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Pike Production Factors

Post by Hamilton Reef » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:36 pm

Pike Production Factors
The Science Behind Growing Gators

Recruitment, growth, and mortality: three words that on the surface may not make an angler’s ears ring but buzz loudly in a fishery biologist’s. These three rate functions are important because they interact to shape fish populations. Recruitment and growth add, mortality subtracts. What results are characteristics of a fish stock—age structure, size structure, and density—at any point in time.
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Post by biiigfish32 » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:37 am

I got this issue a couple weeks ago, and the article was pretty cool. Shoule we start useing slot limits for pike?
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Post by Will Schultz » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:08 pm

biiigfish32 wrote:I got this issue a couple weeks ago, and the article was pretty cool. Shoule we start useing slot limits for pike?
From a management perspective slot limits make the most sense for many species. Unfortunately from an enforcement perspective slot limits are generally not supported.
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Post by john c » Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:12 pm

Let me try to resurrect this one:

Is there any inkling out there, anywhere, that maximum size limits might have a chance someday?

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Post by ccmovi8 » Mon Nov 01, 2010 1:28 pm

john c wrote:Let me try to resurrect this one:

Is there any inkling out there, anywhere, that maximum size limits might have a chance someday?
I would love to see that happen! I just found a lake by my house that produces big pike and in 2006 someone hauled in a 51in pike! I would like to see those kind of fish put back so maybee someone else can experience that too. But I think it's just a pipe dream.

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