Aquatic Biologists Fertilize 415,000 Cutthroat Trout Eggs
TELLER COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) - Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers brought cutthroat trout to the Mason Reservoir in Teller County. Crews electro-fished the cutthroats in nearby creeks and streams.
They then took those fish to fertilize 415,000 eggs in the reservoir.
CPW Aquatic staff members are electrofishing Boehmer Creek on the south slope of Pikes Peak today, looking for cutthroat trout. They need 415,000 eggs to stock Colorado's high mountain lakes this August. pic.twitter.com/BLDB6CIGQw
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The trout will then be taken to a hatchery before being restocked in high elevation lakes.
Crews will drop them in from a plane.
"They'll be about an inch or so, so they'll drop from the air so they fly over the lake and drop them from a couple hundred feet into the lake and they survive just fine," said Josh Nehring, a senior aquatic biologist.
Carrie Brace works at CPW's aquatic Animal Health Lab in Brush. She is on-site at Mason Reservoir today to test the cutthroat trout to make sure eggs CPW collects and transports are healthy and free of infectious disease. pic.twitter.com/xENnOTwOi3
— CPW SE Region (@CPW_SE) June 25, 2019
CPW has an expert on site to test the fish to make sure they are healthy and free of infectious diseases.