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Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
propose more agressive measures to restore bull
trout populations in Flathead Lake
April, 2009: The Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes are beginning an inclusive
process to discuss ways to meet the goals of the
10-year co-management plan to reduce invasive
lake trout in Flathead Lake and increase native
species abundance while maintaining a viable
sports fishery in the Lake. The following are
the proposed steps in the NEPA environmental
scoping process:
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- April: Public scoping meetings
- April - May: Interdisciplinary Team
develops alternatives from scoping meetings.
- June: Ad Hoc review of developed
alternatives
- July: Draft Environmental Assessment
release
- July: Public comment accepted on the
draft EA
- August: Modify the Draft EA based on
public comments received
- August: Selection of preferred
alternative
- Sept. 1: Final Environmental
Assessment release
- Sept. 30: Decision
Please follow the scoping process on the
FlatheadTU.org website.
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Flathead Lake Draft Co-Management Plan 2008
Annual Report - PDF
This Annual Report presents activities completed
for 2008 under the Flathead Lake and
River Fisheries Co-management Plan. The report
follows the strategies in the Comanagement
Plan and follows the outline of the 2008 annual
workplan. |
Flathead Lake CoMgmt Plan Recommendations
from the 5-year review MTFWP & CS&KT - PDF
The Flathead fishery includes 10 native species
and 11 introduced species. Together the
management agencies developed the goal to manage
for healthier populations of native trout. Bull
trout were listed as threatened under the ESA in
1998. To many, this bull trout population
symbolizes the general health of bull trout
populations throughout their range. The current
Co-Management Plan, adopted in 2000, was
completed under considerable scrutiny from the
public, professionals, agencies, and
conservation groups. There was substantial
skepticism about the fact that we chose
angler-based approaches as our preferred method
to restore some balance to the fishery. |
South Fork Westslope Cutthroat Project -
from MTFWP
Over a 10-year period, the project will treat up
to 21 high mountain lakes in late fall with
rotenone or other fish toxicants to remove
nonnativetrout and their offspring so they won’t
hybridize with westslope cutthroat trout.
Rainbow trout and Yellowstone cutthroat trout
readily hybridize with native westslope
cutthroat and produce fertile hybrids that
produce more young. This project is a fishery
replacement project, not a fishery removal
project. When a fishery is eliminated, a new
fishery using genetically pure westslope
cutthroat will be quickly re-established.
“Swamping” or over-planting genetically pure
cutthroat in lakes with hybrids, has seen
limited success in some lakes. We will continue
to monitor the level of hybridization in the
candidate lakes and investigate continued
swamping to rehabilitate some lakes without
using toxicants. |
Draft Environmental Assessment for Removal of
Lake Trout From Swan Lake - PDF
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) proposes to
conduct a 3-year removal
effort of lake trout in Swan Lake, Montana. The
proposed action would involve contracting with
professional fishery consultants to conduct gill
netting over a 3-week period beginning late
August or early September 2009. Additionally,
FWP personnel will remove spawning adult lake
trout during the months of October and November
by gill netting along known lake trout
spawning sites. These activities would be conducted annually for three years. Funding has
been
secured for the first two years of the project,
and is being pursued for the third. |
Montana’s waters hold 93 species of fish,
including 56 that are native, two that might
be native and 35 that have been introduced
by humans. Native fish are those fish
species that are indigenous to the state’s
waters. These include species that are
managed as sport fish or labeled “non-game”
fish by state fishery managers. Wild fish
are populations of both native and
introduced species that reproduce in the
wild...
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