Cecil, is it true that even if you have gobs of bluegills that only thirty to fifty pairs will nest in an acre of water? Even if there is plenty of nesting area?
That is news to me, but everything pretty much is news to me.
Where did you read that? I'd like to get a copy. I keep picking up new information about the little buggers some of which seems paradoxical.
I don't really know (as I am still learning) but I have my doubts about that. I've seen at least a 100 in one spawning colony in a few lakes in Massachusetts, but of course we're talking lakes. I would think the only limitation on how many would spawn is limited spawning habitat. But who knows? Where did you read that?
Here's a link that talks about how many pairs of broodstock to stock per acre. I was wrong it's 20 to 40 pairs per acre. The main thing is not to have so many offspring that they overcrop the zooplankton and you end up with starvation. I know a fish farmer that did that will yellow perch and ended up with hardly any one year.
http://aquanic.org/publicat/usda_rac/efs/srac/141fs.pdf
