Thread: Adam Martin, can you comment on Modified Method results?

This is what I've seen posted in many places:

Smith Bay=17,500
Pisgah Bay=56,000
Total: 73,500 pounds

Originally Posted by M R Dux

I'm seeing some figures drift out but can you comment on the record yet?

Someone on facebook was saying 56,000-57,000 lbs,not sure if its true.maybe adam will chime in and let us know.

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I saw those figures as well and I was shocked. Certain figures were being bandied about that suggested 500k pounds might be achievable....From that perspective, it obviously doesn't look great.

Hopefully they just need to iron the kinks out and it will be a dependable method. Lord knows the native sport fish would benefit tremendously if these fish were eradicated.

$500,000 price tag. Do the math. Pretty expensive fish!

Well, it was a test, and positive test results aren't guaranteed. I look forward to seeing a summary report and whether or not the test results warrant enough merit to conduct it again with modifications for better results.

The fact that they saw such an improvement between Smith Bay (which they did first) and Pisgah Bay is encouraging, they tripled their catch in Pisgah.

Whiskers, yep, @~60,000/lbs(if correct total) for $500,000 expense is not good but at least we had a pile of dedicated hard working teams doing this effort and they did their best and hopefully we all learned some stuff going forward. I'm sure if we offered the commercial teams $0.50/lb, ($500,000 total limit) they would have brought in the 1,000,000 lbs until the $500,000 limit ran out.

The KY Afield episode about the Modified-Unified Method is on this weekend!

Art, many thanks for the update on the KY Afield show. Hope for a lot of detailed information for such a large project. Just facts, no spin.