04-04-2011, 05:07 PM
I don't believe that Yuba has been certified disease free, so there would be no reason to strip eggs and milt from Northerns at Yuba. They already have certified Northern Pike and Muskie in the ponds at Lee Kay for the Tiger Muskie program. Gill netting is a sampling method that is used to determine what the population and condition of a fishery is. While the number of fish in the nets looks like a lot of fish are being sacrificed, it is a very small sample of the numbers in the water being sampled. Fish that can be released, are, some are necropsied, and the rest are donated for consumption. More fish die of natural causes each year than are taken in the nets !!!