I struggle with the 10 to 1 forage to weight gain ratio numbers as and absolute number also. An example..If I stock a 1 ounce LMB in a pond full of FHM he will need to eat 10 ounces of FHM to reach 2 ounces in size. That is conservatively 200 FHM in the 1 to 1.5 inch size. If we give our little LMB the benefit of the doubt and assume he can digest a FHM per day, it will take him 6 months+ to grow from 1 ounce to 2 ounces. I suspect that little LMB will be much bigger than 2 ounces after 6 months. Would it be more correct to say the 10 to 1 ratio might best be provided as the average consumption/growth during the "teenage to adult" lifetime of the fish? Or maybe, over its life a 10 pound LMB consumed 100 pounds of forage? I suspect that growth vs consumption, if plotted on a graph, would be a very steep curve in the early life of a fish that flattens out as the fish gets older/larger.

Just my 1 cent

Last edited by Bill D.; 01/16/17 07:20 PM. Reason: Correct

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