Stanley lake fish kill!

[The_fen]

What do you all think about this? 


https://www.postregister.com/news/local/...72831.html

[wiperhunter2]

What do you all think about this? 


https://www.postregister.com/news/local/...72831.html

First off welcome to the site. This being the Utah board there are likely not a lot of our members, that if aware, are too concerned about it but you might get a little more reaction on our Idaho board. As a matter of fact they are talking about this issue right now, if you care to jump in on the conversation. Here is a link to that thread, the last post brings up this very issue:
https://bigfishtackle.com/forum/showthre...id=1095553

[Kent]

This part of the article impacts Utah anglers, "... capture adult sterile lake trout from a population in Bear Lake to replace the lost adult fish. Gillnetting lake trout began last week." "... “100 to 200 adult-sized” lake trout — about 5 to 10 pounds — will be transported from Bear Lake. Sterile lake trout have been stocked in Bear Lake since the early 2000s."

[wiperhunter2]

This part of the article impacts Utah anglers, "... capture adult sterile lake trout from a population in Bear Lake to replace the lost adult fish. Gillnetting lake trout began last week."  "...  “100 to 200 adult-sized” lake trout — about 5 to 10 pounds — will be transported from Bear Lake. Sterile lake trout have been stocked in Bear Lake since the early 2000s."

I guess I did not read the whole article because I missed that part. What concerns me about that statement is the gill netting part, of those 100 to 200 adult lake trout they are taking how many will die as a result of the gill nets? I'm sure they think what ever that number is, that it is an acceptable number but IMO there a far too few Lakers in BL as it is and as you pointed out there are far too few lakes in Utah that have Macks.

[PBH]

wiper -- I wouldn't be concerned with the fear of killing lake trout by gillnetting them. This would be a different process than traiditonal "sample" gill netting, where a net is set over night. This would be more like what they do at Fish Lake in the fall: set the nets for 30 minutes, then pull them, take measurements, and release them alive. The difference would be that they wouldn't be released, but rather put into a holding tank for transport.

I'm not positive about lake trout, but I'd guess that holding them and transporting them could be done with a low mortality rate.

The interesting part is just the social part -- Is it really necessary to transport ANY adult fish at all? From a biological standpoint: No. This is purely social -- to make anglers feel good. From that standpoint, I'd probably say this is unnecessary.

[meancuznalfy]

Sounds like another trout unlimited deal to get rid of everything other than pure strain rainbows. Seems totally unnecessary.