Shawn, Some (unknown how much) of your problem of fish seeming to hit a growth limit blockade could be with the genetics. Your fish may be reaching their genetic potential at 9.9". Genetic potential could have been started or inherent with the history of the stockers or much of it could have evolved in the existing location or some of both; depending. Different forms of selective harvest or mortality could have favored smaller individuals that perpetuated the size structure of the population long term. You could be seeing the affects. Everything depends on something else.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 07/29/08 10:05 PM.
