Calcasieu Relative Condition Factor Study 2012 Preliminary Results

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Originally Posted by Duck Butter

Again, RITA is probably the MOST important influence here. You give those numbers to any statistician, ecologist, biologist, in the world, and show them those very numbers. They will look at them and see that 'something' seems to be happening without even knowing where Big Lake is and could not point out Big Lake on a map of Louisiana. Well, if you give them a little more information such as:

1. the limit was dropped from 25 to 15 during this time
Answer: Only dramatic change in era
2. a guy fishes the lake a lot and said its because the weirs are blocking off one little bayou into the marsh (that supposedly feed that entire lake even though the entire west side of the lake is marsh)
Answer: Only if closed long term
3. Obama got in office in 2008
Voted McCain
4. Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011
Obama killed him with his hands
5. A freaking Category 4? hurricane came right thru this area in 2005 and completely destroyed and transformed this area and has taken its toll
90% of the trout born in this time frame are dead or have been eaten
6. BP Oil spill in 2010
Zero Affect to any state fishery
7. A guide that fishes here a lot says their isn't as much pressure on the lake, yet there are twice as many guides on the lake now
40+ years on the lake fishes 300 days a year.....I would listen to him

Seems pretty obvious to me?