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Originally Posted by Reggoh
Anyone have a form letter of what to tell these guys if we decide to write to them?
From what I've read through it seems that they want the 18" size limit so that more fish reach sexual maturity and they want the 5 fish limit to coincide with other states that have TT limits.
What are the arguments the other way?... I've read through 4 pages of you guys saying you want science to back a change but you haven't really given any good reasons to leave it the way it is... I'll write to the commission and to Jason Adriance (the person the article directs you to write comments to) but I need something to substantiate the opposition of this proposed Notice of Intent.
If you guys can give me some good information I'll gladly post my letter for others to copy and paste.
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1. Triple tail are a migratory species so there is no real way to do a stock assessment that I have seen.
2.Females reach sexual maturity before they are 2 years old and only live till they are 10 years old
3. Females spawn 18-31 times in a season with an average female
producing 4.5 to 9 million eggs in a season
4. Males are mature before they are 1 year old and 12 inches long