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Originally Posted by numbskull
NOW we're talking something important! Are those superstrike needles wood? 
As an aside, this thread http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...interview.html has a link to a PDF where Coleman interviewed Pichney and they discuss the same issues that have arisen on this thread. Good read. History repeats. |
This winter one of the things I want to do is find the article from the fisherman around the same time as the pichney one that expresses regrets over livelining bunker and mowing off the bass population.
Of course then we can debate if the collapse of the striped bass population was due to overfishing or a natural cycle. Was the collapse at the time of the closing of the Island striped bass clubs (1900) also due to recreational overfishing, commercial overfishing or just a natural population change to prevent disease and starvation from overpopulation?
I can't count creatures living under the ocean but we can and have quantified rabbit, partridge and other small animal populations and see that they go in population cycles depending on a number of factors. Hunting animals can reduce population collapses due to overpopulation. Think about it, if you have enough food for 1000 animals to survive, how many survive if you put 2000 in the same space. It's not 1000.
The only thing I am sure of is that I do not know the answer, and I do not think there is a simple one.
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