Discussion about perch in Fish Lake

[The_Red_Leaker]

[quote Fishrmn]Just to clarify; 1,100 out of 514,438 isn't .002%. It is .20%, or 1/5 of 1%. A rather small sampling indeed.

"Only 13% of all anglers were targeting a
specific game fish while angling. Five percent were targeting rainbow trout, 1% lake trout, 1%
splake, [red]5% yellow perch[/red], and 1% tiger muskie or brown trout (Salmo trutta)."

That means 87% were there to catch whatever species was willing to nibble and of the13% targeting a specific species, [red]38% were targeting perch[/red] while all other species each held 7% of that 13% pie. Hmmm....

Don't know where you went to school, but where I come from 5% doesn't equal 38%. 5% of the 13% were targeting perch. Unless there are typographical errors in there somewhere.[/quote]

My bad on the .002% didn't move the decimal after the calculation.

As for the 38% maybe I wasn't clear in communicating.

5% of the total 100% of anglers were after perch. But of the total amount of anglers that were targeting a specific species 38% were targeting perch. I did however miss that the rainbow fisherman there were also 38% of the total amount of anglers targeting specific species while lake trout, splake, etc. each took approx. 7.6%. of target anglers - different from total anglers.
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