Bio Station, Salish and Kootenai join forces on lake trout study
Bio Station columnist Ian Withrow. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)
Up until the late 1800s, around 10 native species of fish patrolled the waters of Flathead Lake, the most notable of which included westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout. Beginning in 1890, fisheries managers began introducing nonnative species to the food web to ‘improve’ Flathead Lake and generate more recreational fishing appeal. Since then, the biological community of the lake has been greatly and forever changed by the presence of nonnative species...
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