Research sheds light on steelhead survival
University of Idaho graduate student Will Lubenau collects data on a recently caught and tagged steelhead. The fish is part of study seeking to learn how many wild steelhead are encountered by Idaho anglers and how well those fish survive after being released.
PHOTO/Brett Bowersox
Cash tags should entice angler participation in study
Preliminary data from a wild steelhead study, if it holds, could make it easier for fisheries managers to balance protections for wild fish while also allowing anglers to target those raised in hatcheries.
The University of Idaho and Idaho Department of Fish and Game are partnering on the two-year effort aimed at measuring the degree to which wild fish are encountered by anglers and how those fish fare after they are released...
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