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Originally Posted by Bear
Actually it won't work. The problem being is in the biology of the fish. They breed like rats. They over grow the food source and they stunt in growth. If there are no natural predators there is nothing to control them.
Its happening at a bunch of trout ponds. Its a damn shame that armchair biologists take it on themselves to stock these lakes with other species.
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Exactly...average sized perch 5-6 inches...people always want to take the biggest and some even throw the little ones back in the lake...meanwhile another 1,500,000 + eggs are hatching and looking for something to eat. Remembering that no pike and no walleye means super great successful recruitment into the population.
The public would not over fish this lake cause they would not come for 4 or 5 inch perch.
If a 8 inch female has 30,000 eggs...take 100 females X 30,000 = 3,000,000 eggs. Only 5% survival is 150,000...if half are female and reproduce...etc. etc. Pike and Walleye knock the numbers down early and keep preying on them all the way up to ethe 16 inchers getting eaten by 20 lb pike. We can not put pike and walleye in as it is illegal and be a horrible fishery...for too many reasons to go into now.
We are only trying to at best accomplish what mother nature would of done normally...kill millions of perch every year... Hopefully between netting, egg removal, stocking larger trout, angling...we can "dent" the population enough to make them viable want to fish for.
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