In summary, the Kalispel Natural Resource Department's plan for recovering native salmonid populations is: 1. Therefore, additional largemouth bass habitat enhancement structures will be placed in sloughs in 2007. Largemouth bass habitat enhancement has resulted in a significant increase in juvenile relative abundance. In 1997, artificial structures were placed in four reservoir sloughs to provide overwinter cover for juvenile largemouth bass. From 2002 to 2006, over 12,000 brook trout have been removed from 10.2 Km of stream in the upper West Branch LeClerc Creek watershed. Non-native brook trout removal has been conducted in the upper West Branch LeClerc Creek watershed since 2002. Therefore, tributary restoration efforts were more focused on non-native species removals. In 2002, overall fish densities in the restored tributary sites increased 47% however, non-native species accounted for much of the increase. Based on recommendations from these assessments, tributary restoration projects started in 1996. Stream habitat and fish assessments were initiated in 1995.
The objectives of this project focus on implementing measures incorporated into the Council's 1995 Program: 1) restoring tributary populations of native cutthroat and bull trout, and 2) enhancing the largemouth bass population to provide a quality sport and subsistence fishery in the reservoir. Dams on the Pend Oreille River have created habitat suitable for warm-water species. Native fish have been displaced throughout much of their historic habitat by non-natives. Habitat degradation/alteration and widespread stocking of non-native species have resulted in fish assemblages in the Pend Oreille subbasin that are drastically different from pre-development native communities.
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