Jack numbers are relative. DFW channged the dates fish are counted as springers.

Also hatchery practices could tend to keep fish from becoming migratory. The Blackmouth fishery in the Sound has been proped up with fish, held, until the migratory instinct is supressed.
So when the hatcheries hold and feed the fish beyond a certain element; they produce more jacked fish.
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