Fishing Contest aims to curb non-native trout
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This article is a good overview. It gives us a nice background on why the lake trout are such a big problem. It explained what caused the problem and some information on how they have tried to correct it. It also gives us somewhat of a time line to work off of. The purpose of this article is so you will get a quick understanding of why they are putting on the Mac Days Fishing Contest. The Information if found to be helpful is that the article gave us some numbers as to the population of the lake trout and the rate at which they are growing along with what to expect in the future.

Fishing contest aims to curb non-native trout Billings Gazette, The (MT) - September 26, 2007
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Flathead Lake and River Fisheries CoManagement Plan

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This Report is a great source of information on the fish population and how they have declined. The report contains History and Background, Defines the Management Plan, and the Pilot Project.  The report give us some great insight on the attempts they have tried and who has funded those attempt. It has some great photos of the fish that are over runing the lake and pictures of the fish that have been wipped out. There are some graphs included in this report that shows year by year the reversal in abundance of bull trout to lake trout and the amout of other fish consumed by the lake trout such as the Whitefish, Cutthroat, and Bull trout. It also gives some information on how the problem is rapidly spreading up the Middle Fork and the North Fork Rivers. I think this article is great. It has showed me the urgency of the issue.

Barry Hansen, CSKT Fisheries Biologist, Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribe 2012
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Trout

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This is a source about the trout species it self. It tells where the lake trout originate and the description, behavior, diet, and economic impact they have the waters in which they live. I think the main idea of this source is to just give background information of the Trout species as a whole. But it also goes a little deeper into the well-known trout species as well. The information i found to be helpful is that it tells me the lake trout originated from Alaska, which explains why it is one of the largest freshwater game fish. It also give me the scientific name for the lake trout which is S.namacush (Lake Trout).

Coates, Christopher W. "Trout." Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online, 2012. Web. 28 Apr. 2012.
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FAQ on the Fishery of Flathead Lake 

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This article talks about one of the ways they are wanting to try and fix the problem, which is  gillnetting the lake trout and how it worked when done in other areas.This Source is also different in the way it has a question and answers portion. While reading over all the material I have. I've come up with some questions, and this report has those questions with the answers. Like how is Mac Days affecting all the fishing Charters in the Valley?That will be very helpful in my research project.

 Montana Trout Unlimited

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The effects of opossum shrimp
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This article is about the opossum shrimp, known as the Mysis shrimp.  It gives good infomation about the shrimp and why the attemp of planting the Mysis failed. It explains that while they were trying to plant the shrimp to feed the Kokanee Salmon. The shrimp dove to the deep water where the Kokanee do not go. But infact that is where the LakeTrout are. So the Lake Trout ate the Mysis and grew at a incresingly rate. It was a small article, with alot of information in it. So i find the entire article very useful.

The effects of opossum shrimp. (2011). Nature, 469(7329), 134-134. http://search.proquest.com/docview/845497739?accountid=67835