Show Ward takes on fish fin clipping project The Ashley Ward of the Church fin clipped fingerling Rainbow trout at the Jones Hole National Fish r Hatchery between Aug 16 and 15 The ward was under contract with the Wyoming Fish Game Commission The trout are a wild strain of rainbow which are destined for Flaming Gorge Reservoir as e a 9 fish next spring The missing fin which will not grow back will enable state fisheries t f bl biologists from from Wyoming and Utah to identify the fish and the year the they were stocked when they are taken in sampling nets or by anglers angler The fish are taken tram the raceways anesthetized clipped and returned to freshwater to minimize stress and damage to the fish |