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Originally Posted by Marque
Math geek, I talked to a biologist doing a creel survey the other day that told me that LDWF has 7 gill nets placed through the estuary and that 5 of them are checked randomly each week. They fish retrieved are autopsied and documented. I had no idea they did that and didn't know if that buy was pulling my leg. Seems like a report generated from that kinda research would be a pretty useful to a lot of us. Was this guy messing with me? If not, is that something they publish or is it confidential?
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They do and they look at sex and age of the fish caught which is why I have been asking for the usgs study (even asked pretty please a couple times)
. Sex and age are very very important when looking at fish condition. MGs studies so not take into account this very important metric
Angler creel surveys have their place but a gillnet does not have any bias. It catches everything and gets a true representative sample and not just fish that are susceptible to being caught by rod and reel. That is why you don't see a biologist sitting at calcasieu point everyday checking what people caught. They sample by more efficient means