On January 24, 2011, the Council asked the ISRP to review a submittal from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) to the Budget Oversight Group for Project #1991-019-01, Hungry Horse Mitigation/Flathead Lake.
The ISRP finds that the proponents’ request to implement two fishing contests per year as part of their lake trout predator control program is not scientifically justified. Overall, insufficient new scientific evidence is provided to indicate that the use of these contests will contribute to sufficient depletion of the lake trout population to where survival benefits will accrue to the bull trout, cutthroat trout, and other native species.
