Sunday, September 15, 2013
The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is tweaking its steelhead trout stocking program on the Jackson River and at Lake Moomaw.
Since 2009 the DGIF has been stocking streams feeding Lake Moomaw with fingerling steelhead.
The hope was that those fish would travel downstream to Lake Moomaw, grow to adulthood, then return upstream to spawn as adults.
That kind of approach has led to the establishment of successful and popular steelhead fisheries on streams feeding some great lakes.
DGIF fisheries biologist Steve Reeser said a fishery of returning adult steelhead has yet to emerge on the Jackson River, in large part because survival rates of the stocked steelhead are thought to have been low.
One change to the program will be stocking steelhead that are larger than in years past.
Previous stockings were of fish that were about 5 inches long. Reeser said steelhead to be stocked this fall will be about 7 inches long. The hope is that those fish will be better able to survive.
Also, while previous fingerlings have been tagged with special electronic chips to allow biologists to identify the fish, stocked fingerlings will be marked with a clipped adipose fin going forward.
-- Mark Taylor
http://www.tpfr.org
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