In 2006, Idaho launched a bounty-and-netting war on invasive lake trout; a decade later adult numbers were down 64% and Lake Pend Oreille’s kokanee had rebounded
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August 21, 2026
An aggressive campaign using commercial nets and angler bounties helped turn around a decade-long fight against non-native predators in northern Idaho’s largest lake. By 2016, ten years after the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) began its…