Malheur Refuge Occupation Gave Invasive Fish Species A Leg Up
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POSTED: 03/14/2016, 02:52AM
Work is resuming at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, but there’s a lot of catching up to do.
Employees had to stay away during the 41-day armed occupation. During that time, some critical work on controlling the common carp got missed.
The carp is an invasive species that really messes up bird habitat on Malheur Lake. Linda Beck is a fish biologist at the refuge. She says they were planning to divert water away from the lake and catch thousands of pounds of carp before they got there. But that was supposed to happen in January; then, the occupation got underway.
Linda Beck: And so what happened is the lake was at about 2,000 acres, now it’s at 20,000 acres. Now all those fish are not concentrated in that one focal place. So we missed our opportunity to capitalize on the concentration of carp ...
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