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Re:The $64,000 Question...
Ljambeck	Port: Oscoda	01/08/2008 21:15

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as far as the lake setting up like lake H did i think only time will tell on that battle, which i hope it doesn't. the good part about the outlook of lake M is that a lot of this is being caught before a crash as opposed to lake H where it crashed and then they were looking in to it. a big part of the problem was in lake H 80% of the fish were NATURAL born fish. so this caused a huge number of fish to be in the lake becuase they were unaware of this big %. i'm not sure exactly what % they had thought but it was a very small %. so there were millions more salmon in that lake than they thought. lake M is currently said to be about 55/45 with 55% of the fish being natural fish. of course this is only part of the problem lake H had. certainly a big 1. as far as the prey base being at lows thats obviously not a good thing to hear, BUT, i believe in 05 they had record hatches of alewive and its only natural to see a decrease in prey when they have such a great hatch a few years previous. dyporia (not sure on the spelling and the mysis (not sure on that spelling either) are the 2 main food sources for alewive dyporia being the food of choice they are much higher in energy than the mysis, and the presence of both of those are dwindling a lot faster than i would like to see. now they are trying to coincide their plantings with the amount of natural born fish to get the proper predator/prey ratio the lake can support but that is difficult to do because they have said that the amount of natural born fish can change by anywhere up to 5x each and every year given certain situations.

IMO the single thing that has had the biggest negative effect are the damn zebes.

i didn't take in everything about the nets but from what it sounded there won't be anyless of them out there. they actually said that most of the comm fisherman were only using 4-6 nets and they are allowed to use up 12 nets per permit. so potentially could get worse. the others can chime in more on that.

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