n8ly, your comments should be a good wake-up call for the Bremers! Great analysis.
I have a sustaining YP population with an abundance of LMB. Don't know how it happens, but it does in my pond. Not 10 acres though.
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."