nfc talks Native fish

…no one seemed interested in trying to negotiate a compromise that would have allowed for the removal of nonnative rainbows that are imperiling wild native Yellowstone cutthroat in lower Slough Creek and the Lamar River…

While bucket biology is a huge problem, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife moves non-native fish around regularly and has for generations...

When state fish and game agencies do what they are telling the public not to do, they send mixed messages and confuse the masses.  It is another example of, “Do as we say, not as we do…”

While nonnative bass, pike, muskies, and walleye get all the attention, more wild native trout have been lost to the introduction of nonnative salmonids...

Zero-harvest in regard to wild native brook trout is a voluntary precautionary approach, not a mandate or moral high ground…