Yellowstone Lake’s native cutthroat getting bigger
As the lake trout population has been reduced by nearly three decades of netting, Yellowstone Lake’s native cutthroat trout have slowly rebounded and gotten much bigger. …
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Since 1994, the boats have removed more than 3 million lake trout
It’s rare for gillnetting boat crews to feel gratified when their nets yield fewer fish. But that’s what happened on Yellowstone Lake last season when …
Researchers Use LiDAR to Locate Invasive Lake Trout
For decades the National Park Service has been locked in a battle against lake trout, an invasive fish with a voracious appetite that has overtaken …
Want to kill invasive trout? Smother them with their dead.
Invasive lake trout arrived in Yellowstone National Park 25 years ago, quickly creating mayhem as they devoured native cutthroat trout and drove the system to …
A war in Yellowstone: Park biologists reporting some victories against lake trout
The war is still being waged against lake trout in Yellowstone Lake, but fisheries biologists are seeing new trends that offer optimism, and anglers hunting …
Could lake trout swim to Yellowstone Lake?
A new culprit is under suspicion in the unsolved case of who “stocked” Yellowstone Lake with nonnative lake trout, an ecological disaster now costing the government …
Airborne radar reveals lake trout hideouts
LiDAR came to fame finding lost cities hidden under centuries of jungle overgrowth. Turns out, the repurposed laser technology makes a pretty good fish-finder, too. …