Overview of Fish Stocking on Reservations in Region 6

Presented at Tribal Leadership Roundtable Meeting

by US Fish and Wildlife Service

Fish and Aquatic Conservation Program

Doug Frugé Program Supervisor (CO, UT, WY)

303-236-4215 doug_fruge@fws.gov

Summary of Activities 2012-2014 • Ten National Fish Hatcheries stocked 3,227,200 fish weighing

206,395 pounds on 18 reservations in our Region – 2012 1,088,230 83,197 lb – 2013 1,032,760 64,151 lb – 2014 1,106,210 59,047 lb

• Ennis NFH provided 322,880 rainbow trout eggs to the Ute Tribal Fish Hatchery

• Ennis NFH provided 1,507,110 rainbow trout eggs to two Tribal Fish Hatcheries outside our region

• Saratoga NFH provided 155,540 brown trout eggs to the Ute Tribal Fish Hatchery in our Region

Assiniboine and Sioux (Fort Peck - Montana)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 10,320 1,428 7.0 Creston 2013 Rainbow Trout 25,600 2,202 8.5 Creston 2014 Rainbow Trout 19,630 1,666 6.0 Creston

Blackfeet (Montana)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 430,460 30,009 6.4 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 20,610 393 4.0 Creston

2013 Rainbow Trout 367,280 26,490 6.1 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 38,510 677 3.9 Creston

2014 Rainbow Trout 373,520 29,110 6.4 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 42,760 787 3.8 Creston

Confederated Salish and Kootenai (Flathead - Montana)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 146,730 12,700 8.0 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 83,770 265 2.0 Creston

2013 Rainbow Trout 111,610 7,905 7.7 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 100,430 698 2.2 Creston

2014 Rainbow Trout 59,190 4,792 7.6 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 42,250 529 2.7 Creston

Crow (Montana)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 18,040 2,499 7.2 Creston 2013 Rainbow Trout 26,990 2,499 6.2 Creston

Rainbow Trout 90 195 18.5 Ennis 2014 Rainbow Trout 29,163 2,499 6.0 Creston

Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho (Wind River - Wyoming)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 28,970 5,564 8.0 Jones Hole

Sauger 500 3 2.6 Garrison Dam

Snake River Cutthroat Trout 14,000 2,118 7.5 Jackson

2013 Rainbow Trout 28,870 5,315 6.8 Jones Hole

Sauger 118,890 290 2.0 Garrison Dam

Snake River Cutthroat Trout 19,460 869 3.6 Jackson

2014 Rainbow Trout 15,350 1,367 5.6 Jones Hole

Sauger 258,900 538 2.1 Garrison Dam

Snake River Cutthroat Trout 11,690 1,875 7.6 Jackson

Tiger Trout 1,194 69 5.2 Jones Hole

Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout 16,670 3,333 8.3 Saratoga

Gros Ventre and Assiniboine (Fort Belknap – Montana)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 17,850 2,499 7.1 Creston 2013 Rainbow Trout 51,590 4,344 6.2 Creston

Rainbow Trout 3,460 2,457 15.4 Ennis 2014 Rainbow Trout 41,110 3,934 6.9 Ennis

Kickapoo (Kansas)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2013 Black Crappie 2,650 8 1.6 Gavins Point Bluegill 9,650 21 1.5 Gavins Point

Lower Brule Sioux (Lower Brule – South Dakota)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Yellow Perch 30,230 44 1.7 Gavins Point

Northern Cheyenne (Montana)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2013 Rainbow Trout 5,440 563 7.6 Creston 2014 Rainbow Trout 3,943 448 7.1 Creston

Oglala Sioux (Pine Ridge – South Dakota)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 1,440 720 11.4 Gavins Point 2013 Bluegill 6,500 10 1.3 Gavins Point

Largemouth Bass 17,226 87 2.2 Gavins Point Rainbow Trout 1,500 428 9.4 Gavins Point

2014 Rainbow Trout 1,790 460 9.1 Gavins Point Smallmouth Bass 5,500 17 1.9 Gavins Point

Rocky Boy’s Chippewa (Montana)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 37,510 5,355 7.2 Creston 2013 Rainbow Trout 44,450 4,284 6.2 Creston 2014 Rainbow Trout 28,790 2,499 6.1 Creston

Rosebud Sioux (South Dakota)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 1,870 1,085 12.4 Gavins Point Walleye 16,650 20 1.6 Gavins Point Yellow Perch 52,250 80 1.7 Gavins Point

2013 Rainbow Trout 2,920 871 9.5 Gavins Point Walleye 16,230 17 1.5 Gavins Point Yellow Perch 4,500 5 1.5 Gavins Point

2014 Rainbow Trout 3,720 1,923 11.1 DC Booth Rainbow Trout 3,630 993 9.4 Gavins Point Walleye 28,590 30 1.5 Gavins Point Yellow Perch 40,820 55 1.7 Gavins Point

Spirit Lake Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux (Fort Totten – North Dakota)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Walleye 15,400 14 1.5 Garrison Dam 2013 Walleye 15,200 17 1.6 Garrison Dam 2014 Northern Pike 9,000 8 1.7 Valley City

Largemouth Bass 10,000 8 1.2 Valley City

Southern Ute (Colorado)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 20,560 6,514 9.1 Hotchkiss 2013 Rainbow Trout 13,730 3,899 8.9 Hotchkiss 2014 Rainbow Trout 5,170 2,067 10.0 Hotchkiss

Turtle Mountain Chippewa (North Dakota)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Rainbow Trout 5,000 11 2.3 Valley City 2014 Walleye 53,850 41 1.4 Garrison Dam

Ute (Uintah and Ouray - Utah)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Brown Trout 52,560 3,031 4.2 Jones Hole Lake Trout 125 868 26.1 Saratoga Rainbow Trout 33,390 7,865 8.7 Jones Hole

2013* 2014*

* Ute Tribal Fish Hatchery took over responsibility for stocking Ute tribal waters in 2013.

Yankton Sioux (South Dakota)

Year Species Number Weight (lb)

Size (in)

National Fish Hatchery

2012 Yellow Perch 50,000 113 2.0 Gavins Point

Eggs Provided to Tribal Fish Hatcheries - 2012

Tribal Fish Hatchery Species Number of Eggs

National Fish Hatchery

Cherokee (NC) Rainbow Trout 515,910 Ennis Lac du Flambeau Chippewa (WI) Brown Trout 52,120 Saratoga

Rainbow Trout 151,230 Ennis Ute (UT) Rainbow Trout 144,060 Ennis

Eggs Provided to Tribal Fish Hatcheries - 2013

Tribal Fish Hatchery Species Number of Eggs

National Fish Hatchery

Cherokee (NC) Rainbow Trout 362,190 Ennis Lac du Flambeau Chippewa (WI) Brown Trout 51,560 Saratoga

Rainbow Trout 151,210 Ennis Ute (UT) Rainbow Trout 85,200 Ennis

Eggs Provided to Tribal Fish Hatcheries - 2014

Tribal Fish Hatchery Species Number of Eggs

National Fish Hatchery

Cherokee (NC) Rainbow Trout 180,650 Ennis Lac du Flambeau Chippewa (WI) Brown Trout 51,850 Saratoga

Rainbow Trout 145,930 Ennis Ute (UT) Brown Trout 61,820 Saratoga

Rainbow Trout 93,620 Ennis

Bozeman Fish Health Center • Annually inspects all National Fish Hatcheries to assure disease-free

fish and eggs are stocked or transferred to other hatcheries • Conducts annual fish health inspection for the Ute Tribal Fish

Hatchery

National Fish Hatcheries

• Creston NFH (MT), Mark Maskill, 406-758-6868, mark_maskill@fws.gov

• DC Booth NFH (SD), Carlos Martinez, 605-642-7730, carlos_martinez@fws.gov

• Ennis NFH (MT), Connie Keeler-Foster, 406-682-4847, connie_keelerfoster@fws.gov

• Garrison Dam NFH (ND), Rob Holm, 701-654-7451, rob_holm@fws.gov

• Gavins Point NFH (SD), Jeff Powell, 605-665-3352, jeffrey_powell@fws.gov

• Hotchkiss NFH (CO), Adam Mendoza, 970-872-3170, adam_p_mendoza@fws.gov

National Fish Hatcheries (contd)

• Jackson NFH (WY), Liz Sunshine, 307-733-2510, elizabeth_sunshine@fws.gov

• Jones Hole NFH (UT), Kip Bottomley, 435-789-4481, richard_bottomley@fws.gov

• Leadville NFH (CO), Ed Stege, 719-486-0189, ed_stege@fws.gov • Ouray NFH (UT), Dave Schnoor, 435-789-4805,

karl_schnoor@fws.gov • Saratoga NFH (WY), Lee Bender, 307-326-5662,

lee_bender@fws.gov • Valley City NFH (ND), Kurt Eversman, 701-845-3482,

kurt_eversman@fws.gov