U.S. trout get unlikely boost from dams
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BEAVERS BEND STATE PARK, Oklahoma  - It looks like a perfect trout stream in autumn: clear, cold water gushing over rocks and through wooded hills shedding the last of their leaves.
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By Justin Miller, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 7--September 7, 2006 - Salmon anglers looking to haul in bright, fresh fish might want to think about heading to the Sacramento River.
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By Tom Pelton, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 15--A parasite that deforms the spines and skulls of trout -- making them swim in circles often until they die -- has infected 80,000 fish in two hatcheries in Western Maryland, state officials said yesterday.
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A proposal to build a hydroelectric dam on a river with diverse fish stocks has set off a controversy.
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Despite a long-held belief that recreational fishing does not have a serious impact on fish stocks, a paper published this week in Science suggests otherwise.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Scientists have documented natural spawning by the endangered pallid sturgeon in the Missouri River.  They had suspected the six dams in the Dakotas and Montana kept the fish from spawning by altering flow, temperature and sediment content.
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By Scott Richardson;srichardson@pantagraph.com  The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the state's anglers and its aquaculture industry have something extra to be thankful for today.  The U.S.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  May 31--GARRISON, Minn. -- Big Pine Lake looked unfriendly, unknown, unforgiving last weekend as I left the dock to fish for bass.   Strange.
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By Patricia Barclay, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  May 26--The ultimate elitist campaign, an effort by chefs to lobby for tearing out the lower Snake River dams, has hit. Somehow, they think this will let them continue to serve wild Alaska salmon, mostly in San Francisco and Seattle.
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Our wet spring has given one nearby fishery at lift and started a second one moving in the right direction. "Sweet Briar is plum full," Paul Bailey, the south-central fisheries district supervisor for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said Tuesday.
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By AP  LEWISTON, Idaho   Officials with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game plan to partially drain and then poison Deer Creek Reservoir next month because of a nonnative fish that threatens the trout fishery.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 10-- -- The seeds of a great many fish catches are sewn about this time of year.   During these cold days on Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, there isn't a lot of actual fishing going on.
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Fishermen are famed for overstating the size of their catches, but science has found an instance in which anglers have apparently underestimated their prowess.
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Mill Hollow enthusiasts will not find a spot at a fishing hole or camping site at the north-central Utah reservoir this Memorial Day weekend.  Not only that, they won't find this popular place available for fishing and camping for the next two years.
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Not too many years ago, the opening of trout season in Washington was the biggest event of the outdoor recreation year.  It was a massive show with elbow-to-elbow fishing in a carnival- like atmosphere at almost every lake in the state.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 18--It's not a good mix. Lots of dirt and gravel running off backcountry roads into streams where steelhead trout go to spawn.   All the sediment mucks up the gravel the fish need to make new steelhead.
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Fish swim in schools, everyone knows that, but few know the rainbow trout in Liberty Lake were once enrolled at a West Valley middle school.