Idaho study on walleye diet, growth and impacts to other fish species

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Idaho study on walleye diet, growth and impacts to other fish species

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SANDPOINT — The Idaho Department of Fish & Game is funding a University of Idaho graduate research study on walleye.

"This is a pretty intensive project. It requires sampling walleye during all months of the year. We started this work last spring," Fish & Game fisheries biologist Andy Dux told the Idaho Lakes Commission on Thursday.

The study will focus on the diet of walleye in the Pend Oreille system, in addition to their impacts on other fish species.

"In general that’s focused on looking at the seasonal diet and growth of walleye, and also doing bioenergetics — work which is really geared toward trying to understand what kind of impacts walleye have on other fish in the system," Dux told the commission.

Fish & Game, meanwhile, will continue conducting telemetry studies to gain a better understanding of how walleye migrate in the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille watershed.

So far, the telemetry study has shown that pre-spawning walleye tend to stay put, but can roam far afield afterward.

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