Guarding Trout

Sun., June 11, 2000

By Rich Landers richl@spokesman.com (509) 459-5508

Olympic National Park

The era of catch-and-keep fishing appears to be over at Crescent Lake in Olympic National Park.

Beginning this season, anglers will be restricted to using only artificial flies and lures with single barbless hooks and will have to release all fish caught in the lake.

The rule was ordered to protect declining numbers of Beardslee rainbow trout, a unique form of rainbow trout, native to Lake Crescent, and found nowhere else on earth, park officials said.

Washington Trout, a conservation group that pushed for the new rule, says a complete fishing closure may be needed.

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