Radio tags let scientists monitor muskies in the Missisquoi

Radio tags let scientists monitor muskies in the Missisquoi

Source: vermontbiz

11/28/2024

Credit: Kate Kampner

Kate went on the water with a team of scientists to see how they track and tag the fish.

Shawn Good has been working to restore muskellunge fish since 2010, when Vermont began stocking them in the Missisquoi Bay and River. But he’s had the idea to bring the species — a once-widespread relative of the pike that can grow to 5 feet long — back to prominence in Lake Champlain for close to 20 years.

Following a reduction in their range to just the Missisquoi River over the 20th century, the muskellunge were seemingly wiped out after an untreated waste spill from a mill in 1979.

MISSISQUOI RIVER

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