. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. THE STRIPED BASS SPORT FISHERY 33 unpublished; adjusted for inaccuracies and nonreporting (Grant 1977)] to total catch based on the percent of annual catch by charter boats (Figure 4), and (ii) dividing these total catch estimates by the Petersen population estimates (Table 2). These harvest rate estimates are independent of angler response, but aver- aged 45% lower than the estimates based on tag returns. Thus, these results did not
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. THE STRIPED BASS SPORT FISHERY 33 unpublished; adjusted for inaccuracies and nonreporting (Grant 1977)] to total catch based on the percent of annual catch by charter boats (Figure 4), and (ii) dividing these total catch estimates by the Petersen population estimates (Table 2). These harvest rate estimates are independent of angler response, but aver- aged 45% lower than the estimates based on tag returns. Thus, these results did not provide evidence that the initial harvest rates were underestimated. The lower re-estimated harvest rates probably are due to error in the charter boat catch adjustments (Grant 1977) and/or the Petersen estimates of abundance (Stevens 1977a, Stevens et al. 1985). My annual catch estimates (Table 2) are minimum estimates because striped bass abundance estimates used in the calculation pertain to the number of legal size fish in the spring when only about half of the 3 year old bass are legal size. The remaining 3-year-olds are recruited during the summer but are not included in the catch estimate. Catches are influenced by the amount of striped bass fishing effort—declining catches are accentuated by the tendency for anglers to fish less when fishing is poor. For example, the amount of angler effort on charter boats is directly related to angler success (Miller 1974). While my creel census data does not reveal a n cc O X cc -I o < CC Hi Q. S o. 5 077 CHARTER BOATS (72-75). 77 PRIVATE BOATS (72-75). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game. [San Francisco, etc.
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