Byline: Associated Press
ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. -- Fisheries biologists on Lake Champlain spent time this spring looking for landlocked Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout and brown trout.
They didn't find many.
Staff from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in Essex Junction and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation sampled four tributaries on the New York side of the lake to obtain information on salmonid populations and sea lamprey wounding rates, and to evaluate differences among three strains of landlocked salmon being stocked.
The survey crews turned up just 93 salmon, one brown and no rainbows; and the fish they found …
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