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Research sheds light on steelhead survival

by Eric Barker
| August 20, 2020 1:00 AM

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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