I hear you Tracy, and I think I understand where you're coming from. However, in my mind there is still no escaping the eventuality that you are attempting to manage, hopefully improve, a public resource. If I have a dock on a public BOW, and feed the fish underneath it every day, they should show some signs of improvement. And they will most likely tend to hang around. And if my dock is large enough, they may indeed find shelter and escape harvest by confining themselves to residing underneath it.

But I still have no say in preventing an angler in a boat from anchoring right off my dock, and casting up to it.

So in that regard, how big of a "private dock" is needed to have any chance of seeing the fruits of your labor, rather than simply rewarding the efforts of the angler who figures out anchoring in front of it is a pretty good harvest strategy?

Hundreds of acres?

"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"

If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.