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BISMARCK — North Dakota Game and Fish fisheries biologists spend a lot of time in fall surveying district lakes and the Missouri River System in North Dakota looking for natural fish reproduction, spring fish stocking success and forage conditions.
In this week’s segment of North Dakota Outdoors, Mike Anderson takes us to Lake Sakakawea where fisheries biologists are conducting their annual fish reproduction surveys.
"Basically, we're looking at how the year went for reproduction of fish, everything from sport fish down to forage species. So it gives us a snapshot of how well things were for the fish reproduction that year,” says fisheries supervisor Dave Fryda.
On a statewide level, fish reproduction and stocking success were above average on most lakes surveyed this fall.
