09-23-2015, 09:35 PM
I was up the Yankee Fork a few weeks back and while checking the area out found a hole in the river with about 50 dead Chinook laying in it. When I started looking closer I noticed that they all had their tails cut off and the tails were also laying in the hole. They did not look to be in bad shape (in terms of ragged and rotten, aside from being dead). When I got home I did a quick internet search and found one article that mentioned researchers may do this to count fish.
OK.
Recently I got to thinking, however, that these fish appeared to all be unclipped fish, and recall, in good shape (i.e., maybe not spawned out). I can't imagine anyone doing something sinister here, but I am curious if anyone knows what the story might be behind what I saw up there?
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OK.
Recently I got to thinking, however, that these fish appeared to all be unclipped fish, and recall, in good shape (i.e., maybe not spawned out). I can't imagine anyone doing something sinister here, but I am curious if anyone knows what the story might be behind what I saw up there?
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