Mount Rainier National Park Announces Fisheries Management Plan

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A new National Park Service plan for fisheries management on Mount Rainier will focus on protecting bull trout and targeting nonnative fish, the agency announced Thursday.

The plan was one of three potential options, and the Park Service declared a Finding of No Significant Impact following an environmental review. The new plan will update fishing regulations to focus on catch and release of bull trout and harvesting of nonnative species.

In addition, the agency will implement “suppression and/or eradication” of nonnative fish in certain waterways that make up bull trout habitat, including fish removal from up to 10 lakes. The Park Service will expand research and monitoring and “allow adaptive management,” it announced.



More information is available at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/morafishmgtplan.