The mission of This Is Yellowstone is to present unusual and interesting science and cultural content about Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone region. The site is edited by geologist and filmmaker Daniel J. Smith. His intimate knowledge of Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons provides a scientific and cultural perspective on the region found nowhere else. To see more visit our website at www.thisisyellowstone.com.
Its too bad that when any non native species is introduced into a lake that they would plant triploids instead. No spawning , no reproduction. Would then be a controlled put -n- take .
Great video summarizing the importance of Yellowstone cutthroat conservation and the importance it has to preserving the Yellowstone ecosystem good web 👍
Lake trout are part of nature.why transplant them anywhere? Yellowstone trout are very pretty.my parents bought me Franklin mint trophy trout and the yellowstone was one of them.sister in law smashed them.
We have the same issue in canada on spray lakes. It was a cutty creek then they damed it and make a lake and put lakers in it. U can still catch a cutty and they are huge but the lakers have taken over. U can catch more than 100 lakers in a matter of hours
Unfortunately, as long as there are idiotic individuals who can hold a fishing pole, this type of thing will continue. Too bad there is not an intelligence test required before issuing a fishing license.
Weird thinking of lake trout as a destructive species. Just wait until smallmouth bass get in there. They have destroyed 1000s of lakes here in NW Ontario. The native species, especially walleye, have been decimated due to the bass. Smallmouth can live just about anywhere. I know of lakes as far north as 55 degrees latitude that have invasive bass in them!
In the early ‘70s myself and two friends canoed across Yellowstone lake up the Shoshone River into Shoshone Lake. There we caught some Lake trout. The lake was so clear you could see them 50 feet deep when they were hooked. We estimated each trout to be 5 pounds
Invasive species of all types can be an ecosystems worst enemy, Burmese pythons in the everglades is well known but one of the worst ecological disasters of the 20th century happened when a tree lover in Oregon brought over Chinese chestnut trees that also introduced the chestnut blight to north america, the American Chestnut had no immunity. American Chestnuts were not only the dominate canopy tree in the eastern and upper midwestern US until this point, also the major source of food for wildlife from deer to bears to squirrels, more than oaks and preferred by wildlife. in a matter of 30 years from the 1920s to the early '40s, the chestnuts were destroyed by the blight. Chestnuts were also a major foodsource especially in Appalachia adn their loss in the middle of the great depression was devestating. Who has not heard of Bing Crosbys 'Chestnuts roasting on an open fire'. Chestnuts in the store now if you can find them are almost all Chinese chestnuts. They American Chestnut is now considered extinct w just a few small pockets here and there left. Restroration efforts are ongoing using blight resistant strains of these surviving trees, I have a small grove on my property here in the northeast that so far has shown no blight, fingers crossed my half dozen trees can grow to maturity and I can use those chestnuts to plant more trees to leave a legacy.
I did a lot of fishing on Yellowstone Lake in the late 90's. Unfortunately I did see quite a decline year by year... Hopefully we can bring my favorite fish back!
The catch and kill method is a waste of useful protein, I get they should be removed but catch and keep…and feed some folks who need it , this is a case where the government is already spending money on the environment and could also help people make ends meet cheaper than just food stamps , etc .
Yes it is ridiculous! New York state does something similar, New York has a fish hatchery in Altmar. In the fall as the salmon spawn they enter the hatchery and the eggs an milt are taken from the salmon. But instead of using the fish they are simply composted.
Need to keep up the gill netting. Saturate areas with nets where sonar shows fish congregate. There is no one time fix, gill netting needs to be an ongoing process through out the year every year at least when it's not iced over. Either hire a crew that works for the parks or contract it out on a permanent basis. What are the spawning habits of lake trout? Do they spawn in open water or in tributaries? While there will be some bycatch of the non targeted species net mesh size can be regulated to let the smaller cut throats swim through. We have our fare share of exotics here in Louisiana both flora and fauna, most brought in as ornamental or to establish new industries to the detriment of our native species. This will never get rid of the lake trout it will take out a lot of the larger brood fish
They're spawning somewhere usually in a concentrated area at a certain time so I would suggest a trawler on the spawning beds during spawning season.did the job on n Atlantic cod right so your welcome lol
@@jimr4084 talking about before they get onto actual grounds like the channels leading to the spawning creeks and rivers as they migrate in to spawning grounds .they inadvertently wiped out n cod in newfoundland with that style of commercial fishing .
Lake trout do not spawn in tributaries. They spawn on rocky shoals within the lake. The first spawning concentration was located in the West Thumb basin around Carrington Island back in the 90's. A common strategy was to use gill nets and surround spawning beds.@@joesutherland225
I live in Idaho and not only lake trout but brown trout, walleye and especially pike have become menacing problems that are costing taxpayers millions to deal with. Some of them were even stocked by a well meaning game and fish department when fish management was in its infancy. The predominant fish in the big panhandle lakes were bull trout (char), cutthroat and Kokanee. In many lakes and rivers these fish were totally or nearly wiped out. Restocking along with bounties and no limits on the predator fish are helping. Game and fish has also been operating an almost commercial size netting program on the bigger lakes for years. Still, the fisheries will never fully recover and the war will never end.
The same unfortunate progression or regression is to be seen in many African countries, where the introduction of (for us) exotic alien invader species such as carp (Asian and common), largemouth and smallmouth bass and trout have gradually decimated the populations of indigenous species such as tilapia and barbs. Over the last few decades, other factors have placed pressure on the native fishes, such as water pollution, as vital related infrastructure is not maintained properly; and illegal and indiscriminate netting by poachers due to economic pressures. Paradoxically, despite the fact that the aliens are destroying biodiversity, and native fishes are becoming ever scarcer, most sport anglers practice catch and release instead of removing them from the waters. The admirable B.A.S.S ethos, which works on native fishes in America and Canada, doesn't pan out very well in regions of the world where the same fish are problem children.
Whether it’s state biologists or recreational anglers doing it, I can’t think of one time where a non native fish introduction on a large scale helped the ecosystem in any way. I live in Vermont and back in the late 80’s and early 90’s Vermont Fish & Game introduced alewives into Lake Champlain as a forage for landlocked salmon and lake trout. What they didn’t realize at the time is that when landlocked salmon eat alewives it produces an enzyme in their liver than causes infertility. As a result, along with other environmental factors, land locked salmon fishing on Lake Champlain has been on a steady decline for decades.
I hope Yellowstone Lake has no limit on the number of Lake Trout that can be kept. One would think that given the amount of fishing pressure most lakes in the west are under, that removing the limit on Lake Trout would go a long way to help eliminate them from the lake, or at least reduce their numbers.
My understanding is that there is no limit on lake trout in Yellowstone Lake. On the contrary, it is actually illegal to release any lake trout you do catch. But this is in a National Park, nobody actually lives on the lake, and it’s not like there are marinas full of appropriately rigged boats with downriggers, lead core lines, sonar, and all the apparatus required to effectively fish for lake trout (they tend to live and spawn in deeper water, away from shore). There’s pretty much zero fishing pressure on the lake trout.
My Dad went with his buddy a couple of times in the years after he retired in September. You MUST keep the Lake Trout. He would catch 5-10/hr when the bite was heavy.
Glacier Park same thing. In the early 80's, Montana FWP imported mysis shrimp as a food source for planted Kokanee salmon in the Flathead valley amd it went wrong. The shrimp settlef below the feeding range of the Kokanee where the lakers gorged on them. In just few years the lakers population exploded and they just decimated the Kokanee, the cutthroats, the bull trout and the rainbows throughput the Flathead valley and up into Glacier Park. The Kokanee spawn in McDonald Creek in the park would attract hundreds of eagles each fall. In 1983 i was there the day they counted over 600 eagles in a quarter mile stretch. By 1990 there were no Kokanee left to spawn and the eagles were gone too Sad. Lots of lakers everywhere now and limited bull trout and cutthroats.
I live in Erie Pa and love the spring lake trout season. Catching those giants less than a mile off shore makes for incredible days in the boat. There are hardly any other boats out after them. We troll in circles around North East, catching dozens of huge lakers and usually don’t even see another boat. Everyone keeps their boats dry until the walleye season but I always launch before April to bridge the gap between ice season and smallie season. We truly have it all in Erie. World class walleye, perch and smallmouth. Great ice fishing. Steelhead and lakers. It’s a 12 month fishermen’s paradise. A lot of people don’t even bother with the lakers which is insane to me. I have a 29’ stripper seaswirl, but you don’t need anything like that to get on the lake trout. A 16’ with a 9.9 will get you out there. But like I said, lake trout fishermen are few and far between, despite there being thousands of them just a few hundred yards from shore
Hi! I love fishing for lakers here in Michigan. I jig for them! It’s my favorite type of fishing. Lake Erie is great for lakers too? Can I give you my email address? I’d love to talk lakers !
You're called conservationists. Yet you just threw overboard large quantity of lake trout as garbage...lots of food! If this was in this video...how many more times has this act been done? And we are supposed to trust your judgement...
This makes me want to cry. Back in the 70s we went camping every summer. Fishing was incredible. The limit was 3 but they had to under 16 inches. You couldn't put a line in the water without catching a fish. You could fish all day and not catch 3 under 16.
