Southeast Region Fisheries Report

[cpierce]

I agree. The birds are doing even more damage than I thought. F&G has evidence that they are taking 40% or almost half of the tagged fish. On the Blackfoot river the birds get up to 70% of the juveniles coming back to the reservoir and most of the adults going up. Stats like that means to me that in the untagged fish populations, both wild and stocked, they are decimating our waters. This is beyond a "set back".

I am hoping that with this kind of evidence of predation on our "endangered" Yellowstone and Bonneville Cutts we can get some reasonable action for removal of some of their numbers. They okay-ed it for the seals, now it's time for the birds too!
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