2024 and 2025 Fluke Options Poll

[hammer4reel]

Originally Posted by Broad Bill

In one breath you're saying commercials prime size fish to target are over 4 lbs. and then you say a majority of the biomass is made up of fish under 18 inches. How many 4 lb. 18 in fluke have you caught in your lifetime?

The people saying larger fish while having more eggs are less fertile than younger age classes are the same guys harvesting those older breeders to rationalize their catch. The juvenile female fluke when they first attain sexual maturity are said to produce approximately 400,000 eggs a year. Large breeders can produce up to 4 million a year.

There might be some truth to the fact that larger breeders on a relative basis are less fertile but there's no science that suggests that differential in fertility comes close to mitigating the incremental eggs a larger breeder is capable of producing.

You need to read slower . I said NMFS wants us to believe the largest part of the biomass is under 18” IMO they have no idea what it really is .
They have no idea what the break down per age year class is available in the fishery .
Nor do they have a breakdown of females vs males .
Your a graph and numbers guy, but you also have no idea whether info your using is actually accurate or not .
Bad info in is bad info out .

Only way we will ever have accurate information is when info is based on real life conditions , and not guesses from the hip .