05-13-2012, 05:56 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Sorry if I came off a bit harsh, but unless you are a biologist...with years of experience on a specific water...or a specific species...it is difficult to be spot on with observations and speculations.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of our BFT members (Ryno) is the ranking biologist for Flaming Gorge and regularly posts both fishing reports from his personal experience or general info updates on what is going on with the ecology of the lake. He lives with what is happening 24/7/365 and he still scratches his head at some of the things that develop...or don't develop.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A couple of things about the burbot you may not have known. One...they DO move onto the shoreline spawning areas of the kokanee and they do devour vast quantities of eggs. Not all kokanee spawn in upper reaches of tributaries. And burbot also eat young kokanee fry but are not a threat to the free swimming adults in different levels of the water column. They leave that to the macks.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Two...so far the burbot have not completely overtaken Flaming Gorge. And hopefully they will establish a niche and not become the major part of the biomass. Yes, they do have an effect on other species but so far they have not completely upset the ecosystem.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]An interesting sidenote is that DWR has found that having burbot fishing derbies results in far more fish captured and removed from the lake...for study or disposal...than their most aggressive netting efforts. Far fewer fish in the nets than from a bunch of wacko burbologists. That may indicate that the numbers are not greatly out of hand...yet.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Peace.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of our BFT members (Ryno) is the ranking biologist for Flaming Gorge and regularly posts both fishing reports from his personal experience or general info updates on what is going on with the ecology of the lake. He lives with what is happening 24/7/365 and he still scratches his head at some of the things that develop...or don't develop.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A couple of things about the burbot you may not have known. One...they DO move onto the shoreline spawning areas of the kokanee and they do devour vast quantities of eggs. Not all kokanee spawn in upper reaches of tributaries. And burbot also eat young kokanee fry but are not a threat to the free swimming adults in different levels of the water column. They leave that to the macks.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Two...so far the burbot have not completely overtaken Flaming Gorge. And hopefully they will establish a niche and not become the major part of the biomass. Yes, they do have an effect on other species but so far they have not completely upset the ecosystem.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]An interesting sidenote is that DWR has found that having burbot fishing derbies results in far more fish captured and removed from the lake...for study or disposal...than their most aggressive netting efforts. Far fewer fish in the nets than from a bunch of wacko burbologists. That may indicate that the numbers are not greatly out of hand...yet.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Peace.[/#0000ff]
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