Yellowstone Lake Lake Trout Removal

27062015 CPUE has gone from eight fish per 100 meters of net to five fish.

Yellowstone lake lake trout removal. Gill nets are used for this process. Numbers of non-native lake trout removed from Yellowstone Lake1998-2016 along with gillnetting effort and catch per unit of effort. 30052017 Since the fish was introduced in the mid-1990s lake trout has displaced native trout species like the cutthroat which has ripple effects across the Greater Yellowstone.

Yellowstone Forever formerly the Yellowstone Park Foundation is easily the largest funder of the effort but groups like the Greater Yellowstone Coalition have contributed too. In 2019 National Park Service and contracted crews captured more than 282000 lake troutthe majority of which were two-year-old fish. National Park Service The final count for lake trout netted and removed from Yellowstone Lake this year topped 300000 a record high.

Meanwhile nearby in Teton Park Jenny and Jackson lakes both have populations of lake trout and cutthroats. 06082016 Theres less and less lake trout in Yellowstone Lake thanks to recent removal efforts aimed at restoring cutthroat trout to their historical high. Gill nets are used for this process.

24062019 They will never rid the lake completely and they can never stop the netting. Yellowstone Lake anglers are required to keep or kill all lake trout caught. The effort has cost more than 20 million with much of that funding coming from those philanthropic groups that Sholly mentioned above.

These nets are lifted twice a week pulling and killing lake trout. By Associated Press Wire Service. To-date more than 23 million lake trout have been removed to restore the native cutthroat trout of Yellowstone Lake.

Lake Trout Response to Increased Suppression Efforts More than 34 million lake trout have been removed from Yellowstone Lake since 1994. Panels of net extend upward from the bottom of the lake about six to eight feet high and for many miles. I guess the Park Service accepted the ecological change there a long time ago.