Yellowstone Cutthroats Losing Out to Lake Trout

May 11, 2007 By: Marshall Cutchin

Despite the fact that more than 60,000 lake trout were removed from Yellowstone Lake last year, the precipitous declline in spawning cutthroat trout there continues. “Non-native lake trout patrolling Yellowstone Lake are eating so deeply into the population that biologists last year found just 471 cutthroats at a spot where there were more than 70,000 in the 1970s.” Mike Stark in the Billings Gazette.