Our state (WA) used to do it very routinely until just recently when public outcry (& probably more importantly the the finding that rotenone can affect male fertility) has stopped most of the routine ‘rehabilitations’. I guess it was popular in earlier days for everyone to go to the lake while it was poisoned & gather the poisoned fish as they floated to the top & take them home to eat. It was considered non-toxic to mammals then but I think that’s changed some now.

http://www.greatfallstribune.c.....1/70531015

Wildlife official OKs fish poisoning

BILLINGS (AP) — A Fish, Wildlife and Parks regional supervisor has approved the poisoning of brook trout in a stream and three lakes at the headwaters of the Stillwater River to protect a nearby population of pure Yellowstone cutthroat trout.

Region 5 supervisor Gary Hammond in Billings issued the decision notice Wednesday, approving the use of the chemical rotenone to eradicate the brook trout. The decision can be appealed to FWP’s director.

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The project will target brook trout in Goose Creek and Huckleberry, Mutt and Jeff lakes to protect Yellowstone cutthroat in Goose Lake, which is inside the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. The other three lakes are outside the wilderness boundary, but the six-mile section of Goose Creek proposed for treatment forms the wilderness boundary; and parts of it are inside the wilderness area.

The treatment area is about five miles north of Cooke City.

The lakes and creek would be restocked with Yellowstone cutthroat about a year after the poisoning.

Some groups, including American Wildlands and the Beartooth Alliance, voiced approval of the project. The Beartooth Alliance is an affiliate of the Northern Plains Resource Council based in Cooke City.

In a letter supporting the measure, Nellie Israel, chairwoman of the group’s board of directors, wrote: “We feel that the restoration of a thriving Yellowstone cutthroat population would increase visitors’ enjoyment of the area and help stimulate economic growth in the future.”

But the decision notice also contained complaints from other anglers and hikers who saw the project as unnecessary because the brook trout were thriving, and unacceptable in and near a wilderness area.

Brook trout are not native to the area and were likely stocked in the early 1930s. It’s not clear if the Goose Lake Yellowstone cutthroats are native, although it seems unlikely given the geography of the area.

Goose Lake now provides brood stock for the Yellowstone River Trout Hatchery at Big Timber. Wildlife officials would use some of the Goose Lake cutthroat trout fingerlings from Big Timber to restock the lakes and creek.

Goose Lake also provides fish for 68 other lakes in the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains. Brook trout still occupy about 110 lakes in the mountain range.
Goose Creek and Mutt and Jeff lakes should become a self-sustaining fishery, the agency said, while Huckleberry Lake would be restocked every three to four years because its spawning habitat is poor for cutthroats.

i wonder if this will keep the lab closings from happenning . . . .

How bout, WE KEEP OUR FOODS and THEY can KEEP THEIRS?!

Whadaya think?

http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....fety_N.htm

BEIJING — Chinese food exports to the USA are safer than U.S. food exports to the People’s Republic of China, a government official claimed in Beijing Thursday, during a spirited defense of the country’s food and drug safety system.

The prominent cardiologist sounding alarms about the diabetes drug Avandia claims he is the target of a smear campaign organized by a top Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesman.

They’ve got their hands full trying to protect big pharma!

Rest of story:http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=3225419&page=1

Taxpayer funded of course. If they can’t get the basics together on that forget it.

I’m not holding my breath for this US congressional committee to do anything to the FDA. It’s like the rooster guarding the hen house. Make that melahens!

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