Kat-a-Log

[katfish]

This paper sites a decline in growth rate on the James.
It also reports electroshocking 66 blues per hour over 35 inches.


http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/forecasts-and-reports/tidal-river-blue-catfish-report.pdf

I tempered the information with a little skepticism.
The report was prepared for the GIT whose purpose
was to list blue cats as invasive species. They may have
influenced some of the conclusions.
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Catchabiggun,
Robby

[M.Magis]

I didn’t read the whole thing yet, but it didn’t take long for even me to see that they had some seriously flawed data somewhere. While it only makes sense that growth rates would decrease, with blue cats being somewhat “new” to the waterway, things like that don’t change that drastically in one years’ time. It’s a gradual thing most often. It only took a little bit of reading to see the agenda there. Some of their facts were presented as proof of severe overpopulation, when in fact they are commonplace with top predatory fish.