Kootenai River/Kootenay Lake burbot conservation strategy

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Without immediate, substantive management actions, native riverine burbot in the Kootenai Basin will likely share the fate of the West Arm Kootenay Lake population and disappear completely. The goal of this Conservation Strategy is to restore and maintain a viable and ultimately harvestable burbot population in the Kootenai River and in the South Arm of Kootenay Lake. Three objectives address this goal: 1) Maintain at least 2,500 adults in a burbot population in the Kootenai River and the South Arm of Kootenay Lake. 2) Provide consistent natural recruitment in at least three different spawning areas, with net recruitment and juvenile population size sufficient to support at least 2,500 adult fish. Recruitment for burbot recovery may come from natural production, conservation aquaculture, or some combination of the two. 3) Produce stable size and age class distributions. Five complementary conservation and restoration strategies are provided to meet the above objectives: 1) implement an aggressive adaptive program of experimental recovery measures, 2) develop a broad-based habitat restoration program to address altered ecosystem problems that contribute to the burbot collapse, 3) employ hydro operations and conservation aquaculture as key components of near-term burbot protection and restoration, 4) maintain a strong scientific monitoring and evaluation program to guide implementation of conservation activities, and success of recovery, and 5) ensure that burbot recovery measures strike a fair balance between the needs of fish and the needs of people. Complete restoration will be achieved when monitoring and evaluation indicate a sufficient surplus of fish to support self sustained harvest subsistence and recreational fisheries.

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SWAP (2/19/2016) citation:
[KVRI] Kootenai Valley Resource Initiative Burbot Committee. 2005. Kootenai River/Kootenay Lake burbot conservation strategy. [place unknown]: Kootenai Tribe of Idaho. 74 p. Document prepared with assistance from S. P. Cramer and Associates. [accessed 2016 Jan 28]. http://www.fishsciences.net/reports/download_report.php?rid=3544.

Note that, for some reason, the word "burbot" doesn't appear in the title of the suggested citation provided in the document itself. Mere oversight?