Several studies have shown that in some situations around 70% of a Pikes diet consists of other Pike. They are an extremely cannibalistic species and very territorial when fully grown. If they didn't control their own species in this way there would be too much competition for food and the biomass could become unsustainable.
Thank you for your comment and its very interesting,i might have seen the same study or similar and it was based on a northern lake with a large pike population with a small baitfish population (mainly perch ) an some trout and the pike had no option but to eat their own ,the biggest fish netted in the lake was 4 kilos ! is this the same study ?
@@luresoldannew-b2i Several studies that I saw based on balanced thriving waters concluded the same thing. I don't believe it has anything to do with lack of other prey species.
Several studies have shown that in some situations around 70% of a Pikes diet consists of other Pike. They are an extremely cannibalistic species and very territorial when fully grown. If they didn't control their own species in this way there would be too much competition for food and the biomass could become unsustainable.
Thank you for your comment and its very interesting,i might have seen the same study or similar and it was based on a northern lake with a large pike population with a small baitfish population (mainly perch ) an some trout and the pike had no option but to eat their own ,the biggest fish netted in the lake was 4 kilos ! is this the same study ?
@@luresoldannew-b2i Several studies that I saw based on balanced thriving waters concluded the same thing. I don't believe it has anything to do with lack of other prey species.
@@korzer well the grafham study if i recall back in the 80s ,had the entire diet of pike over 15lb as being trout ,smaller pike were not mentioned