LOL OK let me point a few things out to you about the "study".
"we conducted 72 creel surveys during the one-year period, obtained 3,447 angler interviews, and observed a total of 40 tagged bass"
Imagine that tournament anglers that were "interviewed" gave results that reflected a positive light on tournaments. WHAT A SHOCKER!!!!!!! Out of 6000+ tagged fish they got 40 back, and you want to throw their "numbers" up here....hahaha, ok.....I wouldn't exactly take any study that EXTRAPOLATES data from less than 1% of their total experimental group to be gospel. Besides that, the p-value of the experiment puts it out of the grounds of even being acceptable. If this were a real experiment that had "real" consequences the data couldn't even be taken serious.
Since you've probably never even heard of a p-value. Here you go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_valueIt's funny that their previous studies show that tournaments actually kill 4% more fish than are taken home for food, yet for this ONE study the numbers came back different so all the past information is thrown out??????? Typical.....
"To determine how many fish actually died from tournament-related mortality and catch and release mortality, we applied a range of mortality rates obtained from previous studies (10.50% for tournament mortality; 5.15% for catch and release mortality)."
Thats 10.50% mortality from tournaments
FROM ALL THEIR OTHER EXPERIMENTS DONE IN THE PAST.....and 5.15% for catch and release. How in the hell do you go from 10.50% to 2%? I'll tell you how. You do "interviews" and ask tournament anglers if they killed their fish when they released it........
I think I'll believe
ALL the data that they had previous, to doing ONE screwed up experiment on ONE lake. Believe whatever you want to believe though. It was in black and white so you know it's true......
In conclusion it seems that TPWD studies show that overall from years of research - tournaments kill 10% of our bass populations in Texas lakes each year.....That seems fair, to me. Tournament fishermen get to kill but not eat 1 out of every 10 fish that they catch on tournament day. The rest of us tax-payers are just here to fund your good time....
Congratulations are in order to Sam Rayburn Lake. You only kill 4% of the total population each year from tournaments and C&R. The rest of the state kills 15% to rot on the bottom of the lake!!!!!!!
I repeat this study was just the OPINION of a fisheries biologist after ONE study on ONE lake.
I can't help but feel you have an agenda against non-tournament fishermen and want to portray them as the biggest cause of mortality when they are not even close.
See what I did there?
