02-21-2013, 08:22 PM
It's a game of numbers. If you have the ability to kill 10,000 adult chubs every year with Tiger Trout you're falling behind with every 3 or 4 female chubs that survive. If you have enough Tiger Trout to eat 1,000,000 adult chubs every year, you fall behind even if only 300 or 400 adult female chubs survive to spawn. And that's not counting the 100s of millions of chubs that aren't adults.
If you start with a clean slate, and have enough predators (Bear Lake Cutts and Tiger Trout) that they can eat 95% of the young of the year chubs then they will have enough effect to hold the chubs in check. Right now, they can't stop enough chubs from reaching adult size and reproducing.
Even if a rotenone treatment were 100% successful, I've already wagered that some bone head will plant chubs back in Scofield after any treatment, should it happen.
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If you start with a clean slate, and have enough predators (Bear Lake Cutts and Tiger Trout) that they can eat 95% of the young of the year chubs then they will have enough effect to hold the chubs in check. Right now, they can't stop enough chubs from reaching adult size and reproducing.
Even if a rotenone treatment were 100% successful, I've already wagered that some bone head will plant chubs back in Scofield after any treatment, should it happen.
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