Post by Woody Williams on Sept 23, 2007 12:21:34 GMT -5
California Officials to Poison Lake to Kill Fish Predators
Sunday, September 23, 2007
California wildlife officials will risk the ire of many in a fishing community with plans to pour large amounts of poison into the Sierra reservoir to kill a species of predatory fish, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
The state's Fish and Game Department plans to enter more than 16,000 gallons of the fish poison Rotenone into the body of water in effort to protect the state's dwindling trout population from the northern pike, an invader from the Midwest, the report said.
This pike is also a potential threat to the state's fragile salmon and steelhead populations
In 1997, residents outaged at the environmental danger won $9.2 million in damages from California after poison in a fish kill in a nearby creek leaked into Lake Davis. The effot also proved somewhat fruitless as the pike reappeared 18 months later.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
California wildlife officials will risk the ire of many in a fishing community with plans to pour large amounts of poison into the Sierra reservoir to kill a species of predatory fish, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
The state's Fish and Game Department plans to enter more than 16,000 gallons of the fish poison Rotenone into the body of water in effort to protect the state's dwindling trout population from the northern pike, an invader from the Midwest, the report said.
This pike is also a potential threat to the state's fragile salmon and steelhead populations
In 1997, residents outaged at the environmental danger won $9.2 million in damages from California after poison in a fish kill in a nearby creek leaked into Lake Davis. The effot also proved somewhat fruitless as the pike reappeared 18 months later.
