33.10 Barometer How High Is That?

[Iclass]

dtrs posted a link earlier that supported this as well, from a fisheries biologist

[bfishn]

I read it, and it doesn't support your position at all. It merely says that sea level pressure might be the cause of lowered marine plankton biomass observed in a given year of study. It also says the observed reduction could have been due to increased sardine predation too. Purely speculative with no supporting evidence.

It doesn't look like this horse is getting up, but I'll whack it one more time just in case...

Keep in mind that pressure increases with depth (0.43psi/ft). If an increase in pressure at a given depth (caused by a storm front) caused plankton to "lose bouyancy" or otherwise drop down in the water column, the new location would be under even greater pressure. Following your theory, this increase in pressure would force the helpless little critters even deeper, compounding into an ultimate result of being stuck to the bottom until a low pressure air mass moved thru. It just doesn't work that way. Zooplankton make diurnal vertical movements every day, and each movement encounters far greater pressure changes than any storm front causes.

Don't feel bad though, thanks to the ease of copy/paste and common disregard for due diligence, your theory is pretty popular on the web.

[Iclass]

I guess that piece of paper I received was from educators and an institution that lacked due diligence as well..or maybe things have changed since I finished my degree...Pluto used to be a planet right?....I don't believe everything I read on the web, in fact my worthless paper was handed to me before Al Gore invented the internet. We used ancient technology called books.

I will just agree to disagree....thanks for trying not to make me feel bad, although I really wasn't

[Old plug]

Only thing I will say is it is useless to worry about all that crap when your out fishing because it is going to interfere with your concentration on what is happening at the end of your line and the condition around you.

[Champ188]

Only thing I will say is it is useless to worry about all that crap when your out fishing because it is going to interfere with your concentration on what is happening at the end of your line and the condition around you.

+1 ... I've known a lot of excellent anglers in my time, none of which were scientists.

[abkeenan]

+1 ... I've known a lot of excellent anglers in my time, none of which were scientists.

I think Dave (dtrs5kprs) would take exception to that...guy is a mad scientist with the wake baits/jig heads he is creating these days in his Frankenstein lab out in Jayhawk country.

[mjk86]

Hey Im a scientist!! Although def not an excellent angler...wait....ok nevermind that. ha.

[dtrs5kprs]

I think Dave (dtrs5kprs) would take exception to that...guy is a mad scientist with the wake baits/jig heads he is creating these days in his Frankenstein lab out in Jayhawk country.

Too kind. But I am a scientist of sorts, at least one university and three state pharmacy boards would suggest that is the case.

[Champ188]

OK, OK ... you guys are a tough crowd.

I'll revise my comment to say that none of the really good anglers I've known over the years were scientists who spent thousands of keystrokes attempting to educate/impress others with deep-dive debates about atmospheric minutia.

[trytofish]

I spent 4 years on a submarine and I can tell you it really didn't make much difference what was happening above the surface, it was what was happening below that counted. I apply the same to fishing, worked out ok so far!