Disease doesn't stop fish stocking

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: May 16, 2008 at 8:58 AM MST

Story Updated: May 16, 2008 at 8:58 AM MST

CASPER, WYOMING - The state Game and Fish Department says Wyoming waters scheduled to be stocked this year should receive at least 90% of the original fish numbers requested.

That's good news considering an outbreak of whirling disease earlier this year at the Ten Sleep Fish Hatchery. The agency says fish culture personnel from all ten state hatcheries and fish rearing stations were able to reallocate fish requests and adjust egg numbers to cover the majority of shortages.

More than 477,000 fish, totaling 21,500 pounds, were removed from the Ten Sleep hatchery and destroyed. The majority of the fish were small fingerlings and fish that were to be grown and stocked in 2009.

Game and Fish has asked the State Building Commission to consider funding a proposal to renovate Ten Sleep Hatchery by July 2011.

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