Originally Posted By: darth baiter
You forgot option "C". The adipose marking rate of the hatchery fish remains high but the abundance/survival of hatchery fish is declining bringing the overall mark rate of your encounters downward.


I believe the undersize encounters are due to the jacks. More hatchery production makes more jacks. An increased encounter rate should be applied to the LOAF.

DFW should be able to extrapolate the increased hatchery production of jacks and increase the allowable handling.
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