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Article: Salmon Spread.(Lake Ontario stocked with chinook salmon)
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- New York State Conservationist
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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Pen-rearing project aims to disperse Lake Ontario Chinook
An innovative project may improve fall fishing opportunities in the western part of Lake Ontario. Charter boat captains and citizen volunteers, with assistance from DEC fisheries biologists, are raising chinook salmon in streamside pens before releasing them into tributaries of Lake Ontario.
If the timing has been right, it's expected that in three or four years the salmon will return to spawn in the streams where they were released. And that will result in an extended fall fishing season along the western reaches of Lake Ontario.
The chinook, also known as king salmon (Oncorhynchus ...