[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article) :" “We need more research to see how things differ by location,” said Hessenhauer."
Newbomb Turk :" Yet more wasted tax dollars on a stupid study"

And now , a reason for more decades long further study, and decades of further funding, in a different location .

[Ben Ficklin]

"Yet more wasted tax dollars on a stupid study"

Its not a stupid study because fishermen spend money. And the taxpayer dollars that pay for it come out of the pockets of fishermen(licenses and excise taxes on fishing equipment and supplies).

They have known about this a long time and most states use a largemouth breeding program to counter the this phenomenon.