Management activity schedule

Spring 2023
  • Muskie egg collection and hatching
  • Largemouth bass electrofishing assessments
  • Walleye fry stocking into area lakes
  • Mississippi-St. Croix-Minnesota River fish radio-telemetry study
  • Monitoring for invasive carp
  • Scheduled lake surveys and assessments
Summer 2023

June

  • Radio-tag fish in St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers for telemetry study
  • Lake sturgeon tagging and monitoring in St. Croix River
  • Rear muskie fry in St. Paul state fish hatchery
  • Distribute tiger muskie fry to private hatcheries
  • Monitor St. Croix River and Pool 2 of Mississippi for bighead carp and silver carp
  • Collect forage for state fair display fish
  • Scheduled lake surveys and assessments

July

  • Distribute muskie fry to other area offices for further rearing
  • Collect additional display fish for state fair
  • Monitor St. Croix and Pool 2 of Mississippi for bighead carp and silver carp
  • Download fish movement data from acoustic-tag receivers in rivers
  • Scheduled lake surveys and assessments

August

  • Collect additional display fish for state fair
  • Prepare state fair live fish display at the state fairgrounds
  • Monitor St. Croix and Pool 2 of the Mississippi for bighead carp and silver carp
  • Download fish movement data from acoustic-tag receivers in rivers
  • Staff state fair live fish display
  • Scheduled lake surveys and assessments

September

  • Monitor St. Croix and Pool 2 of the Mississippi for bighead carp and silver carp
  • Download fish movement data from acoustic tag receivers in rivers
  • Scheduled stream surveys and assessments

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