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For Hardliner: here's the graph of the white perch harvests. Note that the regression line has positive slope indicating increasing harvests, generally.I'm out of time right now but to make things easier to understand year 1 on the horizontal axis is 1998. You can see an incredible jump on year 17, that would be 2015. What could explain that? The steep slope is troubling for me as I don't care to catch white perch; will the white perch end up being the dominate species caught? If so, why are the last two years so dramatically less? Are they going away or being impacted by the fishing pressure or just being underreported?
Thanks for all of this info JBritch.so many variables in why the numbers fall the way they do. For myself, and a few of my fishing friends, we go to Champlain to fill our freezers with whites, not to sell them. My wife and kids love to eat them, so its what I go for in the late season. They make for a really fun day, and the huge schools (when found) help to instill the love for ice fishing into my 8 year old.
I was told that they were removing lots of weeds from St Albans bay last summer... Could this cause the large schools to not be stacking in there?