Originally Posted By: Bing
I have always heard that once grass carp get a certain size "they should be removed because their consumption of plants slows down". Why remove them? What are they hurting? Even if they just eat a small percent of what they did when they were young, they are still eating that small percent.


Bing, it's all about biomass and carrying capacity. If you remove a large one that isn't eating much (think about how much elderly people eat compared to a teenager), you can add more little ones, and more plants will be consumed.

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