Poachers kill trout on Spokane River

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Poachers kill trout on Spokane River

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Britten Jay, a guide at the Silver Bow Fly Shop, came across a terrible sight Monday. A dozen dead redband trout floating in the Spokane River near the Spokane wastewater treatment plant. (Britten Jay / Courtesy)

Britten Jay, a guide at the Silver Bow Fly Shop, came across a terrible sight Monday. A dozen dead redband trout floating in the Spokane River near the wastewater treatment plant.

“I’d never seen anything like that before,” Jay said. “It was just a gigantic massacre.”

Some of the fish were more than 20 inches long, Jay said.It appeared many of the trout had filets cut out of them.

Sean Visintainer, the owner of Silver Bow Fly Shop, said he knows poaching goes on in the river, but this case is particularly egregious.

It’s illegal to keep redband trout, or any wild trout on the Spokane River.

Although not an endangered species redband trout are in a precarious situation. Native to the more than 250,000 square miles that make up the Columbia River basin, the redband can only be found in about half of what is believed to be its historic range.

It’s estimated there are 300 redband trout per mile on the Spokane River.
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