Catch and Fillet

Eat a lake trout and save a cutthroat

In the late 1980's someone--for whom karma will certainly be a bitch--foolishly released lake trout into the cool, clear waters of Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park. This was not a good move. Yellowstone Lake is one of the last strongholds of the threatened Yellowstone cutthroat trout, and the introduction of the non-native lake trout (which is actually a char, by the way) has put this population at risk: Lake trout favor small fish for their diet and juvenile cutthroat are at the top of their menu. Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.