{"id":232,"date":"2009-03-27T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2018-07-31T14:27:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T21:27:03","slug":"revisiting-non-native-fish-in-northern-california-mountain-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/27\/revisiting-non-native-fish-in-northern-california-mountain-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Non-Native Fish in Northern California Mountain Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last November I wrote about the California Department of Fish and Game restocking ban of non-native fish in the high mountain lakes of Northern California. It generated heated debate. Many day-hikers and backpackers love to make fishing a part of the backtrails experience.<\/p>\n<p>I just found this press release from the US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research station. The release presents the main findings from a recently published research article that holds that <a title=\"Non-native fish species are detrimental to native insect populations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/psw\/news\/2009\/090326_aquatic_insect_study.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-native fish have a substantial impact on insect populations in mountain lakes<\/a>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the press release:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Study Assesses Impact of Fish Stocking on Aquatic Insects <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black;\">ARCATA, Calif., <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: black;\">March 26, 2009\u2014The impact fish stocking has on aquatic insects in mountain lakes can be rapidly reversed by removing non-native trout, according to a study completed by U.S. Forest Service and University of California, Davis, scientists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Their findings appear in a current on-line issue of the journal Freshwater Biology where they describe experiments that examined some effects of fisheries management practices now in use in California mountain lakes where fish do not naturally occur. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">The research has value because the vast majority of mountain lakes in the western United States have been stocked with trout for several decades. Studies following lake restoration to fishless conditions will help scientists and wildlife managers understand the impact of past actions and future decisions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Since 2000, the California Department of Fish and Game has reduced the number of wilderness lakes it stocks by about half because non-native fish feed on declining species like the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog. Federal and state agencies have also begun removing introduced trout in some lakes because fish can survive for years and continue feeding on sensitive species, after stocking has ceased. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Until now, scientists seldom studied the response of aquatic insect populations to the removal of non-native trout. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">\u201cThese highly-mobile predators don\u2019t naturally occur in small alpine lakes so they have significant top-down effects on ecosystems,\u201d said Karen Pope, a Forest Service scientist at the Pacific Southwest Research Station and one of the study\u2019s authors. \u201cThey prey upon aquatic insects that are also food for other insects, amphibians, birds and bats.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">In 2003, Pope and her colleagues began testing the effects introduced fish had on lake ecosystems in 16 lakes in Northern California\u2019s Trinity Alps Wilderness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">The National Science Foundation, U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Fish and Game, and University of California funded the study, which matched current California fisheries management practices by including lakes with continued stocking of trout, suspension of stocking and removal of all fish. It also included fish-free lakes as reference sites for the study. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">The researchers used floating nets on each lake\u2019s surface to quantify aquatic insect populations. They also used gill nets to sample trout density at lakes where there was continued stocking or suspension of stocking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Their results showed the presence of introduced trout was the most important factor affecting the emergence of insects from the lakes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Aquatic insect populations quickly increased when trout were removed from lakes. However, the scientists found suspension of stocking was not effective for restoring insect abundance in most lakes. This was not surprising because suspension of stocking alone had little effect on trout density, according to the researchers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">The study \u201cChanges in Aquatic Insect Emergence in Response to Whole-Lake Experimental Manipulations of Introduced Trout\u201d can be viewed on-line at: <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: blue;\">http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/119880174\/issue <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Does this affect your position on the stocking of non-native fish in mountain lakes? Why or why not? <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last November I wrote about the California Department of Fish and Game restocking ban of non-native fish in the high mountain lakes of Northern California. It generated heated debate. 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