04-29-2021, 04:40 AM
My opinion is that, the plan seems well thought through and reasonable, and cooperation between states natural resource agency is a good thing, and may pay off in the future when Utah will be able to cash in the favor to improve or restore one of its fisheries with Idaho assistance. I tend to trust the biologist who have experience collecting fish this way when they say there will be minimum impact and acceptably low mortality rate. Is it really a 50% morality rate where is that number your citing coming from or is it lower or higher, I don’t recall I may have missed it in the bullet points. What I didn’t miss was 400 fish make up less than 1% of the total population of lake trout over 4 years old and that up to a 10% reduction of fish is undetectable in creel surveys. So In theory they could take many more fish with a really high mortality rate without negatively effecting the fishery. I see no reason to be concerned to the contrary I’m encouraged by interstate cooperation.