(Released: December 21, 2018 - Expired: December 31, 2019)

Division of Sport Fish
Tom Taube, Acting Director
Anchorage Headquarters Office
333 Raspberry Road
Anchorage, AK 99518


Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Doug Vincent-Lang, Acting Commissioner
P.O. Box 115526
Juneau, AK 99811-5526
www.adfg.alaska.gov


Contact: Colton Lipka, Area Management Biologist
(907) 262-9368

Retention of Arctic Char/Dolly Varden Prohibited at Stormy Lake in 2019

(Soldotna) - Effective 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, January 1, 2019, the retention of Arctic char/Dolly Varden will be prohibited in Stormy Lake to continue the restoration of native fish stocks. 

This restriction will be in effect through 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, December 31, 2019.

Stormy Lake was successfully treated with rotenone to eradicate nonnative northern pike in September 2012. Prior to the treatment, eggs were taken from native Arctic char and reared in the William Jack Hernandez Sport Fish Hatchery. During the summer of 2013, Alaska Department of Fish and Game staff released the resulting Arctic char fingerling into Stormy Lake. As shown by sampling events through the fall of 2018, the majority of Arctic char have not reached maturity; therefore, they have yet to undergo a major spawning event. Arctic char are a species with slow growth rates and low population densities and it is unknown how long it will take for these fish to become sexually mature and to reestablish natural production. To allow for the restoration of native fish in Stormy Lake, the best management strategy is to prohibit harvest of this stock until the fish population is established.

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