The Bass Debate

[Leon Roskilly]

Jim Roper:

If the fish capable of spawning are being wiped out, where are all the record numbers of small Bass coming from?

Most bass fry get eaten long before they reach maturity.

 

To make up for these losses, individual bass produce a huge number of eggs.

 

So, you don't need many fish to spawn to produce a huge number of offspring.

 

But although you end up with the same number of juveniles from relatively few individuals, what you do lose out on is gentic diversity within the population.

 

Tight Lines - leon

[Jim Roper]

Ah! So!

[Toerag]

Also, the warmer winters are allowing a higher percentage of eggs to survive. With a couple of cold winters we'll be back to a worse situation than we were before the nursery areas were introduced.

[guernseybass]

If any of you lads have the emails of contacts at UK tackle shops & charter skippers - email them too, as its their livelihood being affected also.

 

for your information guys - bass tagged in the 2002 winter spawn as part of the BASS & MAFF (now DEFRA) tagging programme, were later caught as far apart as Cumbria & Holland.

 

GB

[Leon Roskilly]

guernseybass:

for your information guys - bass tagged in the 2002 winter spawn as part of the BASS & MAFF (now DEFRA) tagging programme, were later caught as far apart as Cumbria & Holland.

GB

Details here: http://www.cefas.co.uk/publications/files2...2D3000/2890.htm

 

http://www.cefas.co.uk/publications/files1...2D1500/1011.htm

 

Tight Lines - leon

[n4lly]

Keep it up lads...

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/guernsey/4371223.stm

 

 

[Prowler]

Well done Caleb, I see you made the news, keep up the good work.