Upper Missouri River Reservoir Fisheries Management Plan 2010-2019
In 2009, FWP and a citizen workgroup began updating the Upper Missouri River Reservoir Fisheries Management Plan and provided opportunities for public participation and comment.
In places like the Upper Missouri River reservoirs, where fishing pressure is high, social expectations are diverse and multi-species fish management is necessary, it is most productive to create plans to direct fisheries managers and insure the desires of various users are recognized.
The plan was finalized in May 2010. [Learn more]
Future Fisheries Restoration
Beginning in 1995, the Montana legislature passed the Future Fisheries Improvement Program, which increased the dollars allocated to fish habitat restoration and expanded the program to include habitat improvements in lakes or reservoirs.
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The articles in this issue highlight the wide diversity of tremendous fisheries we manage in the state; from hatchery supported walleye and trout fisheries in a variety of reservoirs to our internationally recognized wild trout fisheries. [Newsletter]
Leave Montana’s famous rivers to the teeming hordes. Creeks and minor tributaries are where an angler can find fly-fishing solitude these days. [Full Story]
Trout, walleye, and perch anglers on the sprawling reservoir want more and bigger fish. Is that possible, given the ecological limits of the lake and the complex relationships among species? [Full Story]
Walleye anglers and trout devotees sometimes argue over whose fish deserves the most respect in Montana. The thing is, neither side is right. In Montana, as in so many states, it’s minnows that rule. [Full Story]
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