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Earning Their Stripes: The Potential of Tiger Trout and Other Salmonids as Biological Controls of Forage Fishes in a Western Reservoir

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Title Earning Their Stripes: The Potential of Tiger Trout and Other Salmonids as Biological Controls of Forage Fishes in a Western Reservoir
Creator Winters, Lisa K. Budy, Phaedra E. Thiede, Gary P.
Description Maintaining a balance between predator and prey populations can be an ongoing challenge for fisheries managers, especially in managing artificial ecosystems such as reservoirs. In a high-elevation Utah reservoir, the unintentional introduction of the Utah Chub Gila atraria and its subsequent population expansion prompted managers to experimentally shift from exclusively stocking Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss to also stocking tiger trout (female Brown Trout Salmo trutta × male Brook Trout...
Date 2017-03-08T08:00:00Z
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Identifier https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/1088 info:doi/10.1080/02755947.2016.1264509
Source Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications
Publisher Hosted by Utah State University Libraries
Contributor John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Subject Tiger trout salmonids reservoir salmo trutta Animal Sciences Aquaculture and Fisheries Life Sciences

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