Perserving Cutthroats

[DonAndersen]

Folks,

 

Looks like there is a number of solutions/ideas put forward to explain cutthroat population reduction.

 

1] Dewatering

2] Disease

3] Other Invasive Fish [ brook trout]

4] Enforcement or lack there of or excess of

5] Too many otters

6] Professionals should be the ones looking after things

7] Spend money on land protection

 

I'm sure that they may be other causes.

 

Anybody got other ideas?

 

 

Don

 

[McLeod]

Folks,

 

Looks like there is a number of solutions/ideas put forward to explain cutthroat population reduction.

 

1] Dewatering

2] Disease

3] Other Invasive Fish [ brook trout]

4] Enforcement or lack there of or excess of

5] Too many otters

6] Professionals should be the ones looking after things

7] Spend money on land protection

 

I'm sure that they may be other causes.

 

Anybody got other ideas?

 

Don

 

 

 

My first move would be to stock pure strains cutties from other sources on those waters wecutties no longer exsist or are in low numbers. Remove as many undesireables first if necessary.

 

What has to be remembered is not every lake or stream in watershed that historically had a certain type of native fish necessarily had those native fish. What i mean by that is take Athabasca Rainbows for example,They were not found in every lake and stream in the upper Athabasca watershed. I don't have a problem adding them but when I hear people say that rainbows or cutties have been wiped out of certain waters I ask the question..Where those fish ever there in the first place ?