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Photographer: K. Linzmeier
Taken: September 18, 2014
Caption: Fish Out of Native Water
Additional Description: Welcome Exotics In their native ranges, salmon swim from the ocean up rivers to spawn. In those cold tributaries, the young develop. Most Wisconsin tributaries of Lake Michigan get too warm for the young to survive and do not provide enough long stretches of clean gravel for successful spawning. Limited natural reproduction occurs in some streams, but not enough to sustain the popular put-grow-take sport fishery.
Salmon Stamps to the Rescue About $1 million in Great Lakes Trout and Salmon Stamp sales funded the construction of the Besadny Fisheries Facility. The Salmon Stamp Fund, as it's known, continues to support salmon propagation here and at state fish hatcheries. Nearly five million trout and salmon are stocked each year with a respectable ten percent returned to the creel.
Submitted: September 28, 2014, by Keith L of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
Database Locator Identification Number: p287202
File Size: 7.969 Megabytes

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