SCOUTING REPORT | Salmon help from North Dakota, cold case murder, the value of sex education, legislative history

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Officials with South Dakota Game Fish & Parks turned to their counterparts in North Dakota to help restock Lake Oahe with chinook salmon this winter. That, after slightly more than 400 climbed the concrete fish ladder at the Whitlock Bay Salmon Spawning Station. That’s less than half of an average year, says fisheries biologist Robert Hanton.

So, South Dakota turned to North Dakota for help in getting more eggs, Hanton tells KCCR Radio. Both the Dakotas and Montana have a tri-state confederation when it comes to chinook salmon fisheries along the Missouri River.

“Over the 40 years these chinook salmon programs have been going, we have worked as a tri-state work group because in years when one state’s run has been low, the other states can help out to make up the egg shortage and bridge the gap,” Hanton said.

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