7-16 SS Kokanee

 Here’s a question for you. Actually  it is a test to see if you have been listening faithfully to Sportsman’s Spotlight. What is the official name of a landlocked sockeye salmon that also has a Canadian beer named after it? I’m DS... If  you answered Kokanee you would be absolutely correct. I saw something in the local news section of the Idaho Statesman saying that the Kokanee count is way up in northern Idaho and that perhaps next year Kokanee enthusiasts can fish in Lake Pend Oreille in northern Idaho and they will be able to keep some of their catch. Idaho Fish and Game is helping this overall cause because they run the Cabinet Gorge Hatchery in Clark Fork where the eggs are taken. thus far more than 10.5 million Kokanee eggs have been collected and officials are expecting to collect a total of 14 million. Here Greg Anderson who is the assistant manager of the Cabinet Gorge Hatchery:  “the numbers are up. Our facility was primarily put in to supplement the Kokanee spawning in Lake Pend Oreille. every year we go out and collect the eggs, incubate them, raise them to approximately 2 inch fish and then release them in the late spring. Will they not reproduce naturally? They do but we just do it more efficiently for them.”