Yes. The poundage used is within 3-4% from last year. And up (by about 10,000 lbs) from two years ago with same limits but larger second fish. Look at difference from 2011 to 2012.
How can one say it makes a difference looking at these numbers? So again. Can you show me it works? As the data certainly doesn't show that.
Hi vic-tory
I'll use the data that you provided back a few posts and just use the peak months. After all this is where most of the halibut in our sector is caught.
These two years had the same rules and the trend is that under the same rules we would expect that 2016 would follow that trend and we would see an increase. If I recall correctly it was because the average weight of a caught halibut was going up. I don't recall if angler effort went up as well. The evidence indicated that we would go over if the trend continued under the same rules.
Rule---133/90----133/90
Year----2014-------2015
June--195,083----211,587
July---315,075----337,436
Aug---297,439----302,395
So what happened..... the trend continued even under a change to the rules but it did slow down and reversed in Aug 2016. Now was it because the average caught halibut was smaller? Was it because angler effort was less or was it because of the rule change?
Rule---133/90----133/90----133/83
Year---2014------2015-------2016
June--195,083---211,587---236,011
July---315,075---337,436---353,566
Aug---297,439---302,395---249,762
My point is that until all the data is in and the folks that crunch the numbers tell us why, we can not say that the rule change had no effect. Clearly something in Aug 2016 effected that number.
I'll crunch the numbers some more to see if we can spot something else.
(dang formatting... I'll try to clean it up...)