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Several of us have ask many Fisheries Science professors and practicing fishery biologists if they have ever seen or heard of RES stunting/overpopulating. All answer that they have not. If he has a stunted RES population we need to document the situation. Could they be PS ?

YP do eat small lepomis (BG , RES , PS etc)but are not proficient enough to alone stop stunting. If LMB are not controlling the situation then YP and SMB will not either.

We need to be sure of the facts first.