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Friday, October 20, a fish holding pen was vandalized. The pen was dragged from the lake and the salmon that were supposed to be inside were missing, the department says.
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The kokanee salmon holding pen on Navajo Lake before it was vandalized. Photo Courtesy NMDGF NMDGF NEWS RELEASE New Mexico’s annual kokanee salmon spawning efforts were derailed when its Navajo Lake holding pens were vandalized on Friday, October 20. Each fall, salmon are gathered into holding pens to allow Department of Game & Fish staff…
A fish population in the Rio Grande has been helped out by the state's Game and Fish Department.
The peppered chub grows to about three inches and is native to multiple Great Plains states including New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.