Fish and Game seeks steelhead donations
Associated Press - February 27, 2011 5:24 PM ET
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) - Idaho Fish and Game officials in March plan to ask steelhead anglers on the South Fork of the Clearwater River in northern Idaho to donate steelhead as part of a plan to bolster the number of ocean-going fish that return to the river in the future.
The agency wants to spawn the fish in the Dworshak National Fish hatchery and release the offspring in the South Fork and eventually develop a brood stock for the river.
Fish that are donated will be placed in holding tubes and then picked up by special trucks to be taken to the hatchery. The Lewiston Tribune reports that this is the second year of the program.
Agency officials hope to collect about 120 hatchery fish of the estimated 8,000 predicted to return this year.
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