For
the second time in the past three years, heavy spring rains
caused a problem with fish escapement from Greenwood Lake. During
the first week of May, the Bureau
of Freshwater Fisheries received several reports from Muskies
Inc. Chapter 22 members concerning large numbers of muskies
and walleyes stranded in the upper pools of the Wanaque River
just below the Greenwood Lake Dam.
On
May 10th, in a cooperative effort between the Bureau's Lebanon
Fisheries Lab, Hackettstown
Hatchery and members of the MI 22 chapter, 21 muskellunge
and 60 walleyes were collected by electrofishing and transported
back into Greenwood Lake. This same situation that occurred
in April of 2005 below the Greenwood Lake, Lake Hopatcong and
Swartswood Lake dams. At that time, over 500 walleye and 8 muskies
were electrofished and seined and transported back into their
respective lakes. (See Operation
Fish Rescue for details.)
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