While it may be true that a pond with 150 lb of LMB can grow equally very large fish as a pond with 500 lb of LMB, wouldn't the latter grow about three times as many?
Yes, provided the harvest effort per acre is proportionate. In other words, the number of LMB one needs to cull will be three times as many. If one fails to perform 3 times the harvest or if a self sustaining balance doesn't exist. The BOW with 500 lbs of LMB has smaller LMB.
I would however think, that in a sustainable system, that 150 lbs/ac of LMB reflects well above average fertility. If one wanted 500 lbs/ac of LMB, he would also need a standing weight of around 1500 lbs/ac of BG and they would need to produce 2500 lbs/ac of BG
annually just to
sustain the biomass of LMB. Everything would need to be
perfect. If one wanted 500 lbs of LMB/ac, it would be far cheaper to stock only feed trained LMB (no BG that would compete for LMB feed) and just feed them. In that scenario, FT LMB would excel and reproduction would stunt.
