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Water temperature plays a crucial role in how quickly fish will grow. The cold water slows down the growth of the golden trout making it easier to rear fish to the optimal size for helicopter
stocking, which is between two and four inches in length. (WGFD photo)
" I think it is the golden age of golden trout
fishing right now, " said Paul Gerrity, Game
and Fish fisheries biologist in Lander. " Now
that golden trout stocking is full-go because of
our culture system, I can try to do more finetune
management. We can fine-tune stocking
strategies to give anglers opportunities to catch
a lot of goldens, or opportunities for bigger fish
and how often we should stock certain waters. "
SPECIES SURVIVAL
It's cool to claim Wyoming is the only
place in the world that raises a genetically pure
strain of golden trout. Ironically, Diekema
said California showed interest in starting its
own genetically pure broodstock program with
fish from Wyoming. Eggs were shipped to
California, but a flood wiped out the resulting
fish at the facility.
Not only does Wyoming raise and stock
genetically pure strains of golden trout, it provides
eggs of those same fish to other states.
" Maybe Wyoming has the most golden
trout in the country, " Diekema wondered.
" It's also cool when we have visitors from other
states say 'if you caught a golden trout in Colorado,
it probably came from these tanks right
here.' To think this little facility at Story is supplying
the golden trout programs of states like
Colorado, Idaho, Washington and Wyoming,
that's cool to think about.
" This program wouldn't be a success if it
weren't for all the different employees that
dedicated themselves to making this happen.
As custodians of Wyoming's resources we take
pride in what we have accomplished for the
people in the state of Wyoming. "
That resource may be the future for golden
trout throughout the West, and especially in
the golden trout's native territory.
" With drought conditions and a lack of
moisture in California where golden trout are
native, you can look at our high-alpine lakes as
a genetic refugia - a location which supports
an isolated or relict population of a once more
widespread species - in case those populations
are lost in their native range. That's really cool
to think about, " Holmes said.
- Robert Gagliardi is the associate editor of Wyoming
Wildlife.
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" This program wouldn't be
a success if it weren't for all
the different employees that
dedicated themselves to making
this happen. " - Steve Diekema

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