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- Thread starter Oddball
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It was probably the same system we use for most research..... guessing
seriously though, I do appreciate when someone takes the time to actulay look this stuff up in the scientific literature.
seriously though, I do appreciate when someone takes the time to actulay look this stuff up in the scientific literature.
Oddball;3277788; said:
that would have been nice.
but I wonder if exceptional size fish are more the result of some special enviornmental factor that differs from the "normal population" rather than time.
for example, when I was in college (in AR), one of the Bio professors would make an expedition to collect the largest water snakes (nerodia sp.) I have ever seen (and I have seen literaly over a thousand in wholesale warehouses and the wild in several east coast states). They had increased length but more noticably greater girth then the surrounding population. Turns out that they were part of a population of water snakes surrounding an aquaculture facility that raised catfish. They had access to an endless supply of pellet raised catfish.
I would think that the same would be true for fish. The biggest catfish would be right next to the dam and the biggest snook would be right next to the locks... so on and so forth. Not the oldest fish, but largest.
of course I realy have no knowledge base to know if a 14 foot pima is average or exceptional (other then MFK posts). If it is an average size then a growth projection based on comparitive scale growth among many specimins of a known age should be fairly accurate.
wow, that was way to long of a post!
