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Article: Findin flatheads: ; DNR study designed to grow bigger catfish
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- July 12, 2009
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Of all the fish that swim in West Virginia's waters, the flathead
catfish grows largest.
State fisheries officials hope to capitalize on that fact by
helping Ohio River flatheads, or "mudcats," grow even bigger.
"We'd like to see the Ohio become a 'destination spot' for
flathead fishing," said Dave Wellman, an assistant fisheries
biologist for the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources.
"Before we can make that happen, we need to find out more about the
species."
Wellman heads up a DNR research project designed to learn more
about flatheads.
"So far, we've captured and tagged more than 1,000 flatheads in
the Ohio's R.C. Byrd, Racine, Belleville and Willow Island
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