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#1 amackerlens

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Posted 19 October 2015 - 12:05 PM

Hi everyone,

 

I'm a graduate student doing research on Lake Sturgeon but I love the little fellers too.

 

This weekend I joined the U.S. Forest Service to document the reintroduction of Brook Trout to parts of their historic range in the southern Appalachians. A fellow grad student of mine here at UT-Knoxville (who also works for the Forest Service, hence my lucky ticket to tag along) is doing research on their habitat/ population in Cherokee National Forest and Martha Sundquist State Forest. I took a lot of brookie images and thought I'd share a few. Have a looksy and if you want to see more, visit http://www.toddamacker.com/Photo-Essays. 

 

Thanks and enjoy!

 

-TA

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#2 Josh Blaylock

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Posted 19 October 2015 - 01:45 PM

Those are awesome and such beautiful fish.


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#3 Casper

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Posted 19 October 2015 - 03:52 PM

Did you attend the SturgeonFest last weekend?  Big Day for a Big Fish.


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#4 amackerlens

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Posted 19 October 2015 - 03:55 PM

Did you attend the SturgeonFest last weekend?  Big Day for a Big Fish.

 

I couldn't make it! I heard it was pretty cool though.


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#5 Isaac Szabo

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Posted 19 October 2015 - 04:07 PM

Beautiful photos!

#6 MtFallsTodd

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Posted 19 October 2015 - 07:22 PM

Stunning fish!!!
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#7 Kanus

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Posted 20 October 2015 - 07:57 AM

Thanks for sharing Todd! I saw that last photo on facebook but the others I missed. Gorgeous fish, and you have a talent for capturing them!

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#8 amackerlens

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Posted 20 October 2015 - 08:17 AM

Thanks Derek, and everyone else!

 

Thanks for sharing Todd! I saw that last photo on facebook but the others I missed. Gorgeous fish, and you have a talent for capturing them!


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#9 mattknepley

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Posted 20 October 2015 - 08:41 AM

Beautiful fish, beautiful photos.
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#10 gerald

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Posted 20 October 2015 - 09:27 AM

Are these hatchery-bred brookies from "pure" southern stock, or are you catching wild fish from native pops and relocating them to streams that have been cleared of mixed-strain brookies?


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#11 amackerlens

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Posted 20 October 2015 - 11:29 AM

Are these hatchery-bred brookies from "pure" southern stock, or are you catching wild fish from native pops and relocating them to streams that have been cleared of mixed-strain brookies?

Hi Gerald-

 

I don't want to speak for someone else's project, but it's my understanding that they are wild fish. If anything they were relocated from the same watershed, but certainly not hatchery raised. I'll ask Caylor next time I see him.

 

-TA


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#12 amackerlens

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Posted 21 October 2015 - 08:44 AM

Are these hatchery-bred brookies from "pure" southern stock, or are you catching wild fish from native pops and relocating them to streams that have been cleared of mixed-strain brookies?

 

Caylor says:

 

Most of the 30 streams are wild trout populations of the southern strain or mixed-strain, however some of them have been stocked by another stream within the same watershed to keep the gene pool in tact. At this time, there is no removal of brook trout of either strain and we are just in the population estimation stage of the project. 


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