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Idaho Panhandle fisheries projects listed

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT -- With the field season finally in full swing, here are some of the projects Idaho Fish and Game Department fisheries biologists are conducting on the Idaho Panhandle, according to Jim Fredericks, regional fisheries manager in Coeur d'Alene:

  • Channel catfish stocking program evaluation in various lakes around the region (Cocolalla, Hauser, Fernan)
  • Priest River fish population survey
  • St. Maries River fish population survey
  • Pygmy whitefish surveys in Priest and Spirit lakes
  • Hauser and Fernan lakes creel surveys


Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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