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Wyobraz -- you need to understand that the cutthroat in LaBarge were native TO Labarge. That is one of the criteria used when determining what waters to renovate. Historic range. When considering native species and the Endangered Species Act, the WG&F cannot simple throw a bunch of native cutts in an area non-indigenous to that species. They need to put those fish back in their native waters and establish a (hopefully) self-sustaining population. This cannot be done in waters with brown trout, rainbow trout, or brook trout. Hybridization as well as competition would result in failure. In the end, fishermen lose.

As was pointed out previously, it is much more to the benefit of local fishermen to have the State take a proactive stance and renovate these fisheries. If they don't, the Feds come in and instead of merely setting LaBarge Creek aside as a native cutthroat fishery, they poison the whole system (Green River included) and put them as cutthroat waters -- closed to fishing!

The reason that Wyoming still has a creel limit on Cutthroat is because they are re-establishing them to their historic ranges. They are proactively keeping them off the endangered species list, and thus keeping them available for you and I to fish for, and keep if we choose.


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