I was just curious how the DWR is going to restock the eyes at yuba.I wonder if they can just stock a few at a time from starvation since its overpopulated.Maybe they can breed at yuba and help save some of our tax dollars.Since they netted a ton of them some years ago and used them for fertilizer maybe they can transport some of the healthy females and males to yuba and replant them.What is everyones opinion on the restocking of yuba?I am just curious to know!
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Sounds good to me, although who knows it might be cheaper for the DWR to buy them commercially and stock them as fingerlings. Who knows.
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Wont it be cheaper to put fish in there that are ready to reproduce?How many little fishies can one female reproduce?
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I really don't know for sure, but I bet one female produces thousands and thousands of eggs. The cost I refer to is the cost of catching/collecting them from starvation and transporting them live to Yuba. It seems like a costly and difficult task. If they can just order a 20 or 30 thousand fry and pay to have them shipped in, I would think that would be cheaper. But then again maybe it would be more expensive.
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Well they can do what they did a few years back and have a fishing contest or have people volunteer to catch them like they did perch at jordanelle i think it would be cheaper that way and they can just pay for transportation i guess.Or they can just net them too that would be a lot easier i guess.
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AVERAGE FEMALE HAS 300,000 TO 1/2 MILLION EGGS. 3 FRY FOR EVERY 1000 SURVIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SPANW. THIS FROM THE PAGES OF WALLEYE INSIDER. SEEMS SMALL THE NUMBERS BUT DO SOME MATH AND ITS NOT IF 1000 FISH SPAWN ITS A TON.
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Wow thats a lot of eggs! Wouldnt it be better and cheaper if they planted them and let nature take its course? And let them reproduce a little at a time so they dont over populate the lake and eat all the perch?
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YES I BELIEVE IT WOULD FRY WILL TAKE THREE OR FOUR YRS TO REACH SPAWING SIZE. TRANSPLANTED FISH WILL GET RIGHT TO WORK CREATING YR CLASSES OF EYES THUS INSURING GOOD FISHING.
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Cant wait for yuba to worth fishing again!
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[unimpressed] If only it was that easy...
The Fish Health Board, in their infinite wisdom, took that option away from the Division of Wildlife a few years ago. Fish stocked into state waters must now come from certified disease free sources. To my knowlegde, there are only a couple of those waters (other than hatcheries, obviously) in the state, none of which have populations of walleyes. It looks like, at present, the only (legal) means of reintroduction of walleye into Yuba is to purchase walleyes from certified disease free hatcheries or the slower process of letting Mother Nature do it from the remnant population left in there from before the drawdown.
GSD
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Or you could transplant fish from all over, bring in every possible disease, and just hope that the fish survive and the diseases don't spread to every other water in the state!
I heard from a guy involved with the UDWR that the perch that were taken from Jordanelle to Yuba cost the DWR a buck apiece. That's afer all of the donated time and effort to catch them.
Fishrmn
When I attended the walleye seminar at the UDWR on North Temple I asked about what was the plan for restocking walleye in Yuba. They indicated that they first wanted to see if the walleye would reestablish themselves, and if they didn't then they would look into restocking them. Because some have been caught recently, I imagine that they will let mother nature handle the restocking.
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When they did some netting this year they didnt find any eyes so what will happen now that a couple were caught? How many would it take to repopulate the lake?
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