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Luke 5:9
This is the way I see it. A black female Crappie can lay from 10,000-190,000 eggs. Lets say that there was a poor season...drought, poor water quality, harsh shad die-off...and she lays 30,000 eggs. This is now our base line. Now pretend that 60% of the eggs hatch. There is now 18,000 tiny baby crappie swimming around. Lets say that 50% of tose make it to adult size. We are down to 9,000 crappie.
9,000 crappie produced from 1 crappie per season. Whats your guess on how many female black crappie are in Lake Nimrod? No idea....1 million? If each of those produce 9,000 others, for a total of 9,000,000,000. I would say it would take a while for 100 people to take 1 limit per day for a total of 912,500 fish, to deplete the population. (25 limit in texas)
Keep in mind, I never counted male black crappie before the breed...nor did I count white crappie in any of this math.
Is this anywhere near right?