If too many of a certain species of game fish are caught, the population will crash and future years of fishing in the lake will suffer
Your job as a fisheries and wildlife officer is to decide how many fish you should allow to be harvested so as to sustain the sport fishing industry while maintaining the fish population. Assuming the fish population normally experiences logistic population growth, which of the following options would seem to make the most sense in managing this fish population?
A) Allow harvesting to a level of the species' full carrying capacity.
B) Allow harvesting only above the species' carrying capacity.
C) Allow harvesting to a level of half of the species' carrying capacity.
D) Allow harvesting to a level of 1/10 of the species' carrying capacity.
C
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