Originally Posted By: Jerry Garcia
Originally Posted By: FleaFlickr02
It seems there are two kinds of over-escapement; the one that results in exceeding a basin's carrying capacity (and a subsequent crash in the populations)




Before there was the kind of harvest we see today, say 1000 years ago, I'm sure the rivers were over-escaped.


No. 1000 years ago there was no such thing as escapement. Before whitey showed up, I doubt there were many problems getting enough back to the gravel.
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