Preferred Management Option! 



Management options considered included current management with no stocking, chemical 

 rehabilitation, stocking of kamloops rainbows, and stocking of tiger muskies. Horseshoe Lake 

 received 57 comments. 



Under the preferred management cation, an environmental assessment on the introduction of tiger 

 muskie would be prepared for public comment. If approved, tiger muskie would be introduced 

 to Horseshoe Lake to provide a biological control for the rough fish population and provide a 

 trc^hy fishery. The restriction on take of tiger muskies would be the state regulation (1 fish, 30 

 inch minimum). If tiger muskie reduce the rough fish, rainbow trout will be introduced to the 

 system and through monitoring and adaptive management, stocking rates will be adjusted 

 accordingly. 



Table 16. Historic planting of Horseshoe Lake, 1924-1994. 



Year SpeotOB Stocked Numbw Planted 



1924 rainbow trout 20,000 



1932 oofaosabnon 3,675 



1933 rainbow trout 36,000 



coho safanon 28,800 



1935 . cobo sahnoa ^^^^^^^^..^^^^^^.^^^^.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^..^^^.^^.„ 2^ 



1940 kokanee salmon 45,000 



1941 kokane© salmon 41,000 



kkB trout 29,000 



1945 buU trout 4,900 



1952 brook trout 1,275 



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