Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 12:01AM
Eric Rathbun in Conservation, Environment, Rivers, Science, Species, cutthroat trout, wwyoming cutthroat, yellowstone river
"This past Thursday, August 18th, signaled a milestone in fisheries conservation in Yellowstone National Park.

Dr. Robert Gresswell of the USGS, with the support and encouragement of the fisheries team in Yellowstone, has launched a hydro-acoustic telemetry study on Yellowstone Lake. On this last Thursday the first of 140 hydro-acoustic tags were implanted in adult lake trout aboard the Sheepshead that were taken from the trap nets."

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