Is it the GSH predation of the BCP eggs and fry that keeps the BCP recruitment low or something else?
It may be part of the reason but GSH do not eat that many eggs. My guess is the HSB really pound the small crappie. I am sure its a combination of several factors many of which we don't know due to the limited info and time. Really pushing the cutting edge on much of this.
For example one factor may be that many of the yoy crappie die due to starvation because the GSH and TFS eat all the right size plankton/inverts etc leaving none/little for the yoy crappie while in a pre piscivore stage.
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