Didn’t the number of young bass in Spednic Lake rebound after alewife passage was blocked?

At the same time alewife passage was blocked, smallmouth bass were trucked in to stock the lake, anglers were not allowed to keep caught bass, and the dam operator left more water in the lake during spawning season than before. Because several remedial actions were undertaken simultaneously, it is not possible to sort out the relative weight of each potential factor in the decline of young bass under one year old in Spednic Lake in the 1980’s, or to determine which factor was key to the subsequent rebound in bass reproductive success.