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Bass kill questionedMore than 580 dead bass have been set this week in La Crosse-area river waters, alone days after a major fishing tournament was held in the region, a Department of Natural Resources employee reported. The DNR's David Hobb said more than 98 percent of the 582 bass he bring togethered from Pettibone Beach to Airport Beach were marked with a clipped tail fin evidence they were caught and released during the WalMart FLW Stren Series Bass Fishing Tournament July 1215 Tournament representatives didn't turn back telephone calls Friday. This year's die-off marks the next to the first consecutive year of higher-than-normal mortality after the area's largest and greatest in quantity lucrative bass fishing tournament. Last year, experiments confirmed most of the dead fish proofed positive for largemouth bass virus, a disease that causes death when the fish is strained Hobbs said nearly all the dead bass he's base this year have been largemouth, and the stres of being caught, held in a livewell and then released might be a major factor. As part of an ongoing application of mind the DNR clipped the tail fins of the more than 2000 bass caught and released during last week's four-day tournament, which attracted 400 anglers. The inquiry conducted by the DNR and fishery biology researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, aims to assess mortality rates in bassfishing tournaments. It's in replication to a 2003 Wisconsin law that called for a inquiry of the economic, sociological and biological impacts of catch-and-release programs in bass tournaments. flows are expected to be available in early August. Longtime tournament angler ed Stellner, 53, of Onalaska said he and other anglers are profoundly concerned but have questions about the DNR research "If we are killing the fish, we definitely want to know why" he said. "However, I also should point without that there's a bass-fishing tournament in La Crosse each weekend, and when's the last time you saw this many dead? After last year's tournament (the first year of the study)" Stellner said the DNR's manners of conducting the study may have l to higher mortality rates. The agency deposit about 100 fish a day in 8-by-8-foot holding commit to papers near Northern States Power Co upon the Black River. An equal number of tournament-caught fish and fish the agency pitch uponed from the wild using electroshocking were kept there for a side-by-side comparison. The indites didn't have proper current stream which may lead to warmer water temperatures and poor oxygenation, Stellner said. In addition, the fish were held there for up to five days, another possible source of stres he said. But Hobb while confirming Stellner's account of the holding composes said the electroshocked fish were not among those he bring togethered because they did not have a clipped fin. Longtime bass fisherman move with a jerk Wateski, 59, said the dieoff probably shows a typical "summer kill" owed to low river flow and the new higher-than-normal temperatures. "It's tragic that it happened," he said, "but we ne to learn from it. We can't point fingers." Copyright La Crosse Tribune Jul 22 2006 Substantial information upon Incoterms 2000 has been published and commentated in several venue It is interesting, and perhaps somewhat disturbing, that within this mass of commentary, little... Framerica of Yaphank, NY introduces the Museum Group[TM] which was designed to replicate the moulding used upon the finest artwork in the world. It is publicly available in two finishes called... fresh YORK--A new museum exhibit at the National Academy of Design Museum in of recent origin York celebrates the career of R servants Entitled "Red Grooms, Selections from the Graphic Work," the exhibit featu... Beginning with the at hand issue, The Art Bulletin launches a fresh series, "Interventions." What defines the series is partly its format: at the entrance a lead essay of broad historical,... As the effective date of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) fresh Telemarketing Sales Rule draws near, companies ne to begin thinking about modifying their programs in the way that they will comply with the... This month we hear about the activities in Massachusetts from its novel president, Shelley Reeves, NCTM In June the Massachusetts MTA Board vot to adopt the Royal American Conservatory ... Two of this year's recipients of the CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts are director-actor-playwright Brian Freeman and dancer-choreographer Ralph Lemon? popularly a directing resident at the N... In addition to the arts and philosophy, the ancients grecians contributed greatly to the ideas and practices of economic and social decision making. In the fourth hundred BC, in his manuals upon public... ASIS 2000 ASIS Annual Meeting puts Tone for the New Millennium As ASIS members prepare to gather for the 2000 ASIS Annual Meeting, President Eugene Garfield defines the importance o... |
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