I have a lot of Nebraska records logged, and hook and line flathead catfish from 1949 to 2020 is the most impactful. So I jumped off into Oklahoma, and will now will simply grab as many flathead catfish records as I can, and keep putting them into the master
list.
The only courses I ever failed in my life were Trig in High School and Probability and Statistics in College. Life is truly funny.
But, seriously, I don't know about statistics like other people do. They'll get involved later.
The discovery of the week for me, beyond the fact that fish records are also de facto fish age records, in that fish never stop growing, is that the magnitude of the growth of the flathead catfish in Nebraska increases in time the whole way from 1949 to 1988.
Each time a new record is set, it is by a larger margin than that which preceded it.
The classical supposition is that organisms grow in smaller and smaller increments as they approach a genetically-programmed maximum size.
The collection of Nebraska records will allow me to say "fish in Nebraska for which data could be obtained saw an average increase of X", and things of that sort.
Since the establishment is not acknowledging and has not ever acknowledged the subject I'm analyzing here, it's easy to guess that the Ether is the variable.
The mechanics of the Ether will be revealed by this investigation as they are revealed by an analysis of mental health in urban vs. rural areas, and a host of others.
The first two questions coming out of the analysis:
Why or how can the flathead catfish in Nebraska more than double in size from 1949 to 2020?
FLATHEAD CATFISH
The maximum recorded lifespan of the flathead catfish is 24 years.
SUMMARY
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - a 15% increase in size from 1949 to 1950
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - a 123% increase in size from 1949 to 2020
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - a 47.5% increase in size from 1949 to 1961
Nebraska
flathead catfish, hook and line - a 28.2% increase in size from 1950 to 1961
Nebraska
flathead catfish, hook and line - a 35.5% increase in size from 1961 to 1988
Nebraska
flathead catfish, hook and line - an 11.25% increase in size from 1988 to 2020
Oklahoma flathead catfish, hook and line - a 4.8% increase in size from 2004 to 2009
Oklahoma flathead catfish, hook and line - an 8.2% increase in size from 2004 to 2010
Oklahoma flathead catfish, hook and line - a 3.2% increase in size from 2009 to 2010
1949
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - an initial record of 40 pounds
1950
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - a 15% increase in size from 1949 to 1950
1961
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - a 15% increase in size from 1949 to 1950, and a 28.2% increase in size from 1950 to 1961.
What caused the flathead catfish in Nebraska to grow almost half again
as large in just a dozen years, which is about half of a flathead catfish lifetime?
1988
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - a 15% increase in size from 1949 to 1950, followed by a 28.2% increase
in size from 1950 to 1961, followed by a 35.5% increase in size from 1961 to 1988.
The Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish increased in size by 100% from 1949 to 1988. What caused the flathead catfish in Nebraska to double
in size in three or four generations?
2009
Oklahoma flathead catfish, hook and line - a 4.8% increase in size from 2004 to 2009
2010
Oklahoma flathead catfish, hook and line - a 4.8% increase in size from 2004 to 2009, followed by a 3.2% increase in size from
2009 to 2010.
The Oklahoma hook and line state record catfish increased in size by 8.2% from 2004 to 2010.
2020
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - a 123% increase in size from 1949 to 2020.
The Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish increased in size by 15% from 1949 to 1950, by 28.2% from 1950 to 1961, by 35.5% from 1961 to 1998, and by 11.25% from 1988 to 2020.
The maximum recorded lifespan of the flathead catfish is 24 years.
Why or how can the flathead catfish in Nebraska more than double in size from 1949 to 2020?
Why or how can the size increases of the flathead catfish in Nebraska keep getting larger, going forward in time from 1949 to 1988?
2020
Why or how can the increases in size of the flathead catfish in Nebraska keep getting larger, going forward in time from 1949 to 1988?
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - a 15% increase in size from 1949 to 1950, then a 28.2% increase in size from 1950 to 1961, then a 35.5% increase in size from 1961 to 1988, then an 11.25% from 1988 to 2020.
Why or how can the flathead catfish in Nebraska more than double in size from 1949 to 2020?
YEARS
1950
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - the Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish from 1950 weighed 46 pounds, and was 15% larger than the previous
40-pound record holder from 1949.
The Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish increased in size by 15% from 1949 to 1950.
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - the Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish from 1961 weighed 59 pounds, and was 28.2% larger than the previous record "yellow" catfish from 1950
which weighed 46 pounds.
That record holder from 1950 and was 15% larger than the previous 40-pound record holder from 1949.
The Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish increased in size by 15% from 1949 to 1950, and then increased in size by 28.2% from 1950 to 1961.
1998
The Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish from 1998 weighed 80 pounds, and was 35.5% larger than the previous 59-pound record holder from 1961.
That previous record holder from 1961 weighed 59 pounds, and was 28.2% larger than the previous record yellow catfish from 1950 which weighed 46 pounds.
That record holder from 1950 was 15% larger than the previous 40-pound record holder from 1949.
2009
Oklahoma flathead catfish, hook and line - the Oklahoma hook and line state record flathead catfish from 2009 weighed 76 pounds, and was 3.2% larger than
the previous 72-pound, 8-ounce record holder from 2004.
2010
Oklahoma flathead catfish, hook and line - the Oklahoma hook and line state record flathead catfish from 2010 weighed 78 pounds, 8 ounces, and was 3.2% larger than the previous 76-pound record holder from 2009.
That record holder from 2009 was 3.2% larger than the previous 72-pound, 8-ounce record holder from 2004.
The Oklahoma hook and line state record flathead catfish increased in size by 4.8% from 2004 to 2009, and by 3.2% from 2009 to 2010.
2020
Nebraska flathead catfish, hook and line - the Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish from 2020 weighed 89 pounds, and was 123% larger than a previous 40-pound record holder from 1949.
Flathead catfish, hook and line - the Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish from 2020 weighed 89 pounds, and was 11.25% larger than the previous 80-pound record holder from 1998.
The Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish from 1988 weighed 80 pounds, and was 35.5% larger than the previous 59-pound record holder from 1961.
That previous record holder from 1961 weighed 59 pounds, and was 28.2% larger than the previous record yellow catfish from 1950 which weighed 46 pounds. The 1961 author didn't mention a previous record holder.
That's an average annual increase in size of 2.56% over each of those 11 years. That's well above the baseline.
That record holder from 1950 and was 15% larger than the previous 40-pound record holder from 1949.
The Nebraska hook and line state record flathead catfish increased in size by 15% from 1949 to 1950, by 28.2% from 1950 to 1961, by 35.5% from 1961 to 1988, and by 11.25% from 1988 to 2020.
The maximum recorded lifespan of the flathead catfish is 24 years.
Why or how can the flathead catfish in Nebraska more than double in size from 1949 to 2020?
Why or how can the size increases of the flathead catfish in Nebraska get larger, going forward in time from 1949 to 1988?
Jeff Miller, Brooklyn, New York, August 28, 2020
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