Maybe...but I haven't yet seen any studies talking about 2.5% for one CnR, compared to caught twice in two days, or twice in a month, or three times in a week, or anything like that.

I suspect that the closer in time two CnR's would be, the more likely there would be cumulative effects. I would also suspect that there is a time...6 hours, 6 days, 6 weeks, who knows?...where the fish returns to baseline and there aren't any cumulative effects.

It's the reports that big females "reabsorb their eggs" or "don't spawn" after being CnR'd that concerns me.

Those are in "quotes" because though I can find where California DFW cites that concern often, I don't have any studies on hand that say that...but that has become at least somewhat of a consensus, I think?

More studying is probably called for, but at least the sturgeon will still be there after studying, unlike salmon that are dead before you could learn anything.

Fish on...

Todd