Mary lake lakers?

[Bigfishrule]

Its true that they are planting streams less. I talked to a dwr fisheries biologist at a rac meeting last year. He said there were a few reasons for this. One being the already mentioned better survival in lakes. Also with the tight budget theyhave to feed the fish longer in the hatchery. In lakes they can plant much smaller fish and let them grow to catchable size. And the biggest reason stated was the loss of hatchery capacity due to drought and whirling disease.

There is hope as they are rebuilding several hatcheries and hope to get water from wells that wont be whirling disease contaminated. The Kamas hatchery gets all its water from a well, it used to use water from beaver creek.

John
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