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—Photo by DAC COLLINS Burbot specialist Nathan Jensen holds up a dip net full of juveniles. At this point, the fingerlings have spent approximately nine months in a holding tank at the Kootenai tribe’s hatchery in Moyie Springs. It will take at least a few days for these fish to acclimate to the river, which is a vast, wide-open environment compared to the manmade ponds at the hatchery.

—Photo by DAC COLLINS Burbot specialist Nathan Jensen holds up a dip net full of juveniles. At this point, the fingerlings have spent approximately nine months in a holding tank at the Kootenai tribe’s hatchery in Moyie Springs. It will take at least a few days for these fish to acclimate to the river, which is a vast, wide-open environment compared to the manmade ponds at the hatchery.

October 20, 2016

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Kootenai tribe releases another batch of burbot
October 20, 2016 10:39 p.m.

Kootenai tribe releases another batch of burbot

The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho conducted its annual burbot release at the public Search and Rescue boat ramp in Bonners Ferry on Friday, Oct. 14. A number of Boundary County residents, mostly youngsters, came out to assist the tribe members and fisheries experts as they released approximately 2 thousand juvenile burbot into the Kootenai river.