Cutthroat Stalker » Stocking

Need Plans to Fuel Your Pre Fishing Season Excitement?

Cutthroat Stalker (Scott) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:33:23 +0000

Head on over to Island Park and watch the big cutts on their spawning run as they make their way from Henry’s Lake to Hatchery Creek. You can watch the IDFG as they take eggs from the fish at the fish ladder. This supports their stocking program with 1.2 million fingerlings released back into Henry’s Lake in the fall.

California’s DFG’s Hatchery Stocking Report

Cutthroat Stalker (Scott) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:33:10 +0000

For those of you concerned about the impact of hatchery released fish into native fish habitat in California, the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) released their Environmental Impact Report (EIR) / Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on January 11. It’s a weighty tome consisting of over 25 PDF files. The reason for the EIR/EIS is because of a lawsuit filed by the Pacific Rivers Council and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) in which they said that the CDFG’s stocking program failed to meet the standards of California’s Environmental Quality Act. The CBD released a statement January 18 responding to the EIR/EIS in which they said, “Although the report disclosed many severe impacts of the program, it failed to analyze the full impacts of stocking or adopt adequate measures to reduce the program’s harm.”

Stocking Lakes with Cutthroat – by Horseback

Cutthroat Stalker (Scott) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:37:13 +0000

A nice little article from the Helena Independent Record about stocking westslope cutthroat into Montana’s back-country lakes by horseback. A little old-timey nostalgia of the way things used to be.

North Cascades NP Stops Stocking Non-Natives

Cutthroat Stalker (Scott) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:00:52 +0000

Starting July 1, 2009, the North Cascades National Park management plan for the stocking of about 42 high country lakes is to stop stocking non-native species. Most of these lakes were historically fishless, and the hope from the NCNP is that they will become fishless again. Time and effort formerly involved in providing stocked fish in these lakes will be used to help other areas of Washington preserve and restore native populations of salmon, cutthroat trout and bull trout.

Fish Science – Evolution, Extinction and Stocking

Cutthroat Stalker (Scott) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:26:38 +0000

Three new fishy articles from Science Daily:

Evolution Of Fins And Limbs Linked With That Of Gills

ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2009) – The genetic toolkit that animals use to build fins and limbs is the same genetic toolkit that controls the development of part of the gill skeleton in sharks, according to a new study. Link to the whole article.

Why Certain Fishes Went Extinct 65 Million Years Ago

ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2009) – Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, according to a new study. Finish the articcle here.

What do you think, any implications for fly fishing? Who can predict, to the nearest millennia, how long before there’s an impact on anglers? (BTW – It sounds like there might be a niche market for piscatorial paleontologists—any takers?)

Study Assesses Impact Of Fish Stocking On Aquatic Insects

ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2009) – The impact fish stocking has on aquatic insects in mountain lakes can be rapidly reversed by removing non-native trout, according to a study completed by U.S. Forest Service and University of California, Davis, scientists.

What do you think, should anglers encourage removing fish from areas where they are not native so native, non-fish species can rebound? What if we’re talking about your favorite tailwater?