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Originally Posted by Talking moose
That’s why people freak out at our (Alberta) fisheries. It’s well known that the bigger/older the female fish gets, the more eggs it produces.
Makes no sense to keep fish over x amount of centimetres and let the small ones go. The bigger fish are proven breeders and produce more offspring.
Some provinces got it right with slot size limits or keeping fish under x size.
Release the big hens.
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Slot limits agree to protect the big spawners but in a province with so few fishable waterbodies slots size has to be extremely tight in order not to deplete slot size so that enough slot fish sneak thru to become big spawners. I think slot size on our lakes is too liberal.