06-21-2004, 04:16 PM
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]BISMARCK, ND—North Dakota waters are poised to receive a bumper crop of walleye and northern pike fingerlings as the result of an excellent egg collection season, according to state Game & Fish Department personnel. [/size][/#000000][/font]
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]The eggs have been hatched, grown to fingerling size and will be stocked statewide through June, says Jerry Weigel, fisheries production and development section leader.[/size][/#000000][/font]
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]Fisheries crews collected 16 million pike and 33 million walleye eggs during the spring spawning operation. "We had a very good spring, with good-quality eggs," he says. [/size][/#000000][/font]
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[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]The eggs have been hatched, grown to fingerling size and will be stocked statewide through June, says Jerry Weigel, fisheries production and development section leader.[/size][/#000000][/font]
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]Fisheries crews collected 16 million pike and 33 million walleye eggs during the spring spawning operation. "We had a very good spring, with good-quality eggs," he says. [/size][/#000000][/font]
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