Lake Roosevelt White Sturgeon Slot Change CR-101
Lake Roosevelt White Sturgeon Slot Change CR-101
Weak year-classes of wild-caught-larval which were reared and released as part of the conservation aquaculture program in Lake Roosevelt, will begin entering the existing sturgeon harvest in 2025. This group of sturgeon is present in low abundance but has high conservation value. Concurrently, there is a need to maintain a harvest sturgeon fishery in Lake Roosevelt in order to remove over-represented previous year-classes of hatchery sturgeon. The Lake Roosevelt sturgeon fishery requires multiple rule changes over the next several years in order to maintain harvest of target year-classes of sturgeon while managing the fishery to minimize harvest impacts to year-classes of concern.
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Note that a rule proposal is still in development and this preproposal notice may only contain broad generalizations of possible changes to the subject rule. More specifics will become available when a CR-102 rule proposal is made available for comment.
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