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Fisheries workers to study sturgeon
FORT SPOKANE — The state and two American Indian tribes will be stringing setlines on the waters of Lake Roosevelt later as part of a study of juvenile white Sturgeon above Grand Couldd Dam.
Beginning Sept. 30, four boats will be used to string 600-foot setlines between buoys on Lake Roosevelt.
Setlines are long fishing lines with multiple hooks.
Officials expect to deploy 10 setlines daily from Sept. 30 and to Oct. 4.
The lines will be left overnight and state and tribal fisheries employees will collect them the next day, along with any fish on the hooks.
The fish will give fisheries employee...
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