04-15-2011, 05:34 PM
The great Bassrods rears his beautiful head....Bassrods would like to do what Montana felt they couldn't do...stock perch--or some other forage fish-- to support the walleye.
IN fact, Montana "considered stocking perch" in Canyon Ferry, "but even the new Fort Peck hatchery doesn’t have anywhere near the capacity to grow the millions required to make a significant difference in the Canyon Ferry fish community. “We’d need to stock enough perch that walleyes couldn’t eat them all and there’d be enough left over to improve the perch sport fishery,” he says. Roberts estimates that Canyon Ferry walleyes consume more than 30 million fingerling perch each year. “At full capacity—if they didn’t produce anything else—our Fort Peck and Miles City warmwater hatcheries combined could only produce 5 million fingerling perch,” he says."
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IN fact, Montana "considered stocking perch" in Canyon Ferry, "but even the new Fort Peck hatchery doesn’t have anywhere near the capacity to grow the millions required to make a significant difference in the Canyon Ferry fish community. “We’d need to stock enough perch that walleyes couldn’t eat them all and there’d be enough left over to improve the perch sport fishery,” he says. Roberts estimates that Canyon Ferry walleyes consume more than 30 million fingerling perch each year. “At full capacity—if they didn’t produce anything else—our Fort Peck and Miles City warmwater hatcheries combined could only produce 5 million fingerling perch,” he says."
http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articl...nFerry.htm
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