Cutthroat preservation with "Trojan Male" brook trout stocking

[kansasdad]

As the title suggests, efforts are underway to preserve native cutthroat trout using a strategy of stocking YY male brooktrout, which should lead to all male offspring, eventually eliminating the brookies from the area of the stockings. Game Creek in the upper Snake river is the site of this stocking/story.

Game and Fish: Historic release of Trojan male brook trout to save cutthroat in Game Creek

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department reports that in an unprecedented move for native cutthroat trout conservation efforts in Wyoming, a historic release of 3,600 Trojan male brook trout took place in Game Creek in the upper Snake River drainage. Brook trout, which displace native cutthroat due...

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[mevertsen]

As the title suggests, efforts are underway to preserve native cutthroat trout using a strategy of stocking YY male brooktrout, which should lead to all male offspring, eventually eliminating the brookies from the area of the stockings. Game Creek in the upper Snake river is the site of this stocking/story.

Game and Fish: Historic release of Trojan male brook trout to save cutthroat in Game Creek

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department reports that in an unprecedented move for native cutthroat trout conservation efforts in Wyoming, a historic release of 3,600 Trojan male brook trout took place in Game Creek in the upper Snake River drainage. Brook trout, which displace native cutthroat due...

sheridanmedia.com

They are doing this in parts of Nevada as well for Lahontan cutthroat trout.

 

[Dougfirtree]

As the title suggests, efforts are underway to preserve native cutthroat trout using a strategy of stocking YY male brooktrout, which should lead to all male offspring, eventually eliminating the brookies from the area of the stockings. Game Creek in the upper Snake river is the site of this stocking/story.

Game and Fish: Historic release of Trojan male brook trout to save cutthroat in Game Creek

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department reports that in an unprecedented move for native cutthroat trout conservation efforts in Wyoming, a historic release of 3,600 Trojan male brook trout took place in Game Creek in the upper Snake River drainage. Brook trout, which displace native cutthroat due...

sheridanmedia.com

That's cool! It cracks me up how we're all working to save brook trout in the northeast, from their invasive competition (and habitat issues), while folks in the west are trying to get rid of them to save their native fish...

 

[Gerald Martin]

Talk about toxic masculinity…