07-06-2005, 04:46 PM
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BOISE, ID— The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (DFG) will be conducting a creel survey this summer on the Kootenai River from Deep Creek upstream to the Leonia bridge on the Idaho-Montana border. Creel clerks will count, measure and weigh angler-caught fish to determine how size structure of the population is affected by harvest.
In addition, anglers will be asked how long they fished and how many fish they released, so catch rates can be determined. Data will be used to help evaluate the two-trout bag limit and 16-inch minimum size limit for trout initiated by the DFG in 2002.
As part of this project DFG biologists have also marked an undisclosed number of rainbow trout with $10 reward tags—yellow plastic tubes placed along the back of the fish just below the dorsal fin. Anglers who catch these fish are encouraged to record the tag number and report it to the DFG Fish and Game regional office in Coeur d’Alene.
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BOISE, ID— The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (DFG) will be conducting a creel survey this summer on the Kootenai River from Deep Creek upstream to the Leonia bridge on the Idaho-Montana border. Creel clerks will count, measure and weigh angler-caught fish to determine how size structure of the population is affected by harvest.
In addition, anglers will be asked how long they fished and how many fish they released, so catch rates can be determined. Data will be used to help evaluate the two-trout bag limit and 16-inch minimum size limit for trout initiated by the DFG in 2002.
As part of this project DFG biologists have also marked an undisclosed number of rainbow trout with $10 reward tags—yellow plastic tubes placed along the back of the fish just below the dorsal fin. Anglers who catch these fish are encouraged to record the tag number and report it to the DFG Fish and Game regional office in Coeur d’Alene.
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