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Originally Posted by Don Andersen
Talli....
In the years since the winterkill of 2017, All three strains of Trout Lodge AF3N fish were stocked. Jumper, Kamloops and Silvers. All are AF3N.
Brood stock from the eggs bought from Trout Lodge are sterile so brood stocks can’t happen from this group.
Alberta does some sterilization that results in 3N fish which are sterile but still retain spawning instincts and from what I’ve been told by the BC biologists, 1/2 of the males die in year two.
And The lake is still suffering from the stocking of 100,000 plus which mostly removed a lot of the bugs. This will take time to recover. It may take years.
Regards,
Don
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I sincerely hope the uneducated opinion of an amateur fishery biologist is dismissed by the ACA on the matter.
Aerating a stocked Put-and-Take man-made reservoir is nothing more than a want to catch larger (non-reproductive) trout before the stocking truck arrives.