A lot of how we have counted species in the past has been out and out guess work and occassionally been found grossly inaccurate. But even this artificial intelligence is sort of a guess. It still relies on estimation and sometimes that's just off course. There's always a big discrepancy of what the Texas Parks and Wildlife says and what fisherman have seen in person. Who's right? I have a sneaky suspicion it varies. Therefore, I believe the Parks and Wildlife survives by being conservative on its estimation.
And that is again, the point... a managed resource was responding a certain way to the previous methods. Dropping those methods and essentially starting all over brings guessing back to the very beginning.
