Subject: Squaw fish invasion

From: [email-masked] (Kathleen Ostridge)
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 19:03:19 GMT

Someone introduced Squaw fish into the Eel River in Northern California. 
They are not native and they are direct conflicyt with the Salmon 
population as they eat baby Salmon. The Salmon population is near 
extinction due to logging, overfishing, water diversion, and...the Squaw
fish.

Any ideas on how to eradicate the non-native Squaw Fish and/or
control them? Is there any way to place sterilized stock in with the 
others to fool them into thinking they are breeding when all eggs will be 
in fact infertile?

Poison has been suggested and is NOT an option, and the latest is a 
campaign to get people out to fish for them. A contest for whoever 
catches the most might work out well, and, it would be nice to find a way to
catch them in big sweeps, but, I am afraid it will take more than that...

Any ideas?

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"A few more trips around the sun & my face will look like a fault map!" 
                                                  
                                                  - [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (George Nandor)
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 04:19:30 GMT

Kathleen Ostridge ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Someone introduced Squaw fish into the Eel River in Northern California. 
: They are not native and they are direct conflicyt with the Salmon 
: population as they eat baby Salmon. The Salmon population is near 
: extinction due to logging, overfishing, water diversion, and...the Squaw
: fish.

: Any ideas on how to eradicate the non-native Squaw Fish and/or
: control them? Is there any way to place sterilized stock in with the 
: others to fool them into thinking they are breeding when all eggs will be 
: in fact infertile?

: Poison has been suggested and is NOT an option, and the latest is a 
: campaign to get people out to fish for them. A contest for whoever 
: catches the most might work out well, and, it would be nice to find a way to
: catch them in big sweeps, but, I am afraid it will take more than that...

: Any ideas?

On the Columbia River they offer a bounty of $3.00 for each squawfish 
over 10 inches or some length like that.  Seems to have dramatically 
reduced the spawning population!  

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