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11-24-2001, 08:09 PM
LAKE SALMON PLANTS SET
November 2, 2001
REDDING--The first truckloads of yearling king salmon are scheduled to head for Shasta and Trinity lakes next week as part of the Department of Fish and Game's popular "inland chinook" program, the DFG said today.
Wilber Cartwright, manager of Mad River Hatchery near Arcata, said hatchery trucks will haul 30,000 of the eight-inch kings to Shasta Lake and 20,000 to Trinity Lake. Additional plants will follow at Shasta, Trinity and Whiskeytown lakes, the DFG said.
"The fish are in very good condition," Cartwright said, adding that there is no hint of the disease problems that struck Mad River last year when an ultraviolet light system failed and the young salmon came down with proliferative kidney disease.
Fish and Game said the crop of surplus eggs that were hatched to produce this year's yearling chinook were collected by Iron Gate Hatchery last fall during the Klamath River's fall spawning run. Iron Gate has already delivered eggs for next year's plants, the DFG said.
The highly successful program provides anglers with trophy fishing opportunities for the salmon one to three years after their release. At Shasta, for example, anglers often land king salmon in the six-to-eight-pound range.
Russ Calkins, manager of the DFG's Crystal Lake Hatchery near Burney in Shasta County, said his hatchery plans to deliver another 29,000 yearling kings to Shasta Lake and 1,000 to Whiskeytown Lake by mid November. Mad River will haul another 5,000 chinook to Trinity later in November.
In cooperation with resort owners and the U.S. Forest Service, Fish and Game will place 1,500 of the additional 5,000 Trinity fish in pens to be raised through the winter and released next spring. The test will help biologists learn how the fish fare and grow over the next six months.
Fish and Game said $5 reward tags will be on 300 of the Whiskeytown fish, 400 of the Shasta fish; 5,000 of the Trinity fish released directly into the lake; and, 300 of the 1,500 pen-raised salmon at Trinity. Anglers who return the tags--and collect the $5--help the DFG evaluate survival and growth rates of the fish.
November 2, 2001
REDDING--The first truckloads of yearling king salmon are scheduled to head for Shasta and Trinity lakes next week as part of the Department of Fish and Game's popular "inland chinook" program, the DFG said today.
Wilber Cartwright, manager of Mad River Hatchery near Arcata, said hatchery trucks will haul 30,000 of the eight-inch kings to Shasta Lake and 20,000 to Trinity Lake. Additional plants will follow at Shasta, Trinity and Whiskeytown lakes, the DFG said.
"The fish are in very good condition," Cartwright said, adding that there is no hint of the disease problems that struck Mad River last year when an ultraviolet light system failed and the young salmon came down with proliferative kidney disease.
Fish and Game said the crop of surplus eggs that were hatched to produce this year's yearling chinook were collected by Iron Gate Hatchery last fall during the Klamath River's fall spawning run. Iron Gate has already delivered eggs for next year's plants, the DFG said.
The highly successful program provides anglers with trophy fishing opportunities for the salmon one to three years after their release. At Shasta, for example, anglers often land king salmon in the six-to-eight-pound range.
Russ Calkins, manager of the DFG's Crystal Lake Hatchery near Burney in Shasta County, said his hatchery plans to deliver another 29,000 yearling kings to Shasta Lake and 1,000 to Whiskeytown Lake by mid November. Mad River will haul another 5,000 chinook to Trinity later in November.
In cooperation with resort owners and the U.S. Forest Service, Fish and Game will place 1,500 of the additional 5,000 Trinity fish in pens to be raised through the winter and released next spring. The test will help biologists learn how the fish fare and grow over the next six months.
Fish and Game said $5 reward tags will be on 300 of the Whiskeytown fish, 400 of the Shasta fish; 5,000 of the Trinity fish released directly into the lake; and, 300 of the 1,500 pen-raised salmon at Trinity. Anglers who return the tags--and collect the $5--help the DFG evaluate survival and growth rates of the fish.