cutthroat trout

In 2016, the fish restoration project ended after nonnative brook trout were completely removed from the waterway due to successful treatments.

Over 100 anglers caught all four native subspecies of cutthroat trout in Wyoming--this marks the 5th time in a row this has happened.

The order comes in the wake of the nonnative species being caught in the Gardner River at its confluence with the Yellowstone just outside of Yellowstone National Park.

Cutthroat trout are the only trout native to the Snake River drainage and the biggest measured almost 15 inches.

A sexually mature lake trout starts laying eggs at age 5-6 and can live as long as 50 years.

Native cutthroat are the park's most ecologically important fish because it is a food source for grizzly bears, birds of prey and other wildlife.

Fishermen say cutthroat trout are rapidly replacing lake trout in Yellowstone Lake.

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Biologists say the number of cutthroat trout in the Hoback River has surged in the years since a fish stocking program was phased out. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department discontinued the stocking program in 2005. The agency also has discontinued a number of other trout stocking programs around the state...