08-25-2011, 05:14 PM
good point...I will call or email him. I did call the DWR office here locally, the answer I got was if it is on the website then they are in there....so I wanted to get it from the "horses mouth" as in any angler who has caught one there...older posts on the subject was also a great resource, my curisoty stems from all the millions of crawdads I have caught there and wondering if they are in Deer Creek (trout pond), Jordanelle (trout pond) then logically they could also be in there ....I am now educated on the problems they would face there.
However, hypothetically, if you have one fish and it spawns, and only 5 or 6 of its fry make it to adulthood...then when they spawn they do the same in 4 generations (eight years) you could have as many as 1,697,616 fish..now of course there are other factors at play but the point is, even two healthy adults from one spawn, would theoretically increase exponentially the population of that species.
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However, hypothetically, if you have one fish and it spawns, and only 5 or 6 of its fry make it to adulthood...then when they spawn they do the same in 4 generations (eight years) you could have as many as 1,697,616 fish..now of course there are other factors at play but the point is, even two healthy adults from one spawn, would theoretically increase exponentially the population of that species.
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