04-04-2011, 02:56 PM
[quote PBH]3. Catching more "natural" cutthroat than before.
I hope this is true. I hope that the spawning habitat improvements are helping. My question is: how in the heck do you know that the fish you are catching are not hatchery fish? If trout are stocked as 7" fish, they would be indistinguishable from a wild hatched fish. Visibly, they would be identical. So, what criteria are you using to know that the trout you are catching are wild fish? (again, I hope you're right)[/quote]
All cutthroat that the UDWR stock have a fin clipped. Hence the regulation that only cutthroats with a healed fin clip may be kept at Bear Lake. I'd like to watch when they clip the fins on those 3 inch fish, and they plant 10 or 12 thousand at a time.[cool] If it doesn't have a clipped fin, one may assume that the fish was not raised in a hatchery.
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I hope this is true. I hope that the spawning habitat improvements are helping. My question is: how in the heck do you know that the fish you are catching are not hatchery fish? If trout are stocked as 7" fish, they would be indistinguishable from a wild hatched fish. Visibly, they would be identical. So, what criteria are you using to know that the trout you are catching are wild fish? (again, I hope you're right)[/quote]
All cutthroat that the UDWR stock have a fin clipped. Hence the regulation that only cutthroats with a healed fin clip may be kept at Bear Lake. I'd like to watch when they clip the fins on those 3 inch fish, and they plant 10 or 12 thousand at a time.[cool] If it doesn't have a clipped fin, one may assume that the fish was not raised in a hatchery.
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