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Northern Pike Collection Underway on Mississippi River

GUTTENBERG - Crews with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources are collecting northern pike in the shallow backwaters of Pools 10 and 11 of the upper Mississippi River. The goal is to collect enough eggs to hatch about 1.5 million fish, which works out to about 90 females and 270 males.

Northern pike eggs will hatch after 10 days to two weeks. Most northern are stocked as fry but about 350,000 of the newly hatched fry will be shipped to Spirit Lake to grow to 2 to 3 inches. Those larger fingerling fish have a higher survival rate and will be stocked in rivers and lakes, mostly across northern Iowa.

Crews will collect fish for five to seven days.

 

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