North Dakota Game and Fish conducting creel surveys

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – For those who’re fishing on the Crimson River this summer time, you would possibly run right into a Recreation and Fish Division creel clerk.

Each 5 years the North Dakota Recreation and Fish Division together with Minnesota DNR, conduct a creel survey on the Crimson River.

“We’re doing a creel survey or angler survey the place we’re going to attempt to decide the full angler utilization and in addition the full numbers of fish of the varied species that anglers would catch and harvest on the market this summer time,” mentioned NDGF fisheries biologist Todd Caspers.

A brand new twist on this 12 months’s survey will assist in the pursuit of gathering full angler use data.

“The clerks are going to be handing out a creel card to shore anglers who haven’t accomplished their fishing, which most time after we encounter shore anglers, they’re not full, and we get the perfect data from an entire interview. So the cardboard will enable them to go surfing and end their survey, basically,” mentioned Caspers.

Caspers mentioned clerks can even depart creel playing cards on boat angler autos, too. The survey solely takes a couple of minutes to fill out.

“You simply scan the QR code on the cardboard or go to the web site listed, and that’ll take you proper to the web site the place the survey is being housed,” mentioned Caspers.

Excessive water this spring has delayed the beginning of the survey alongside some areas of the Crimson River.

“We’ve began the Fargo clerk. He’s up and operating and dealing, however the water ranges are simply so excessive within the Grand Forks and north space that we’re having to delay the beginning of that creel clerk till water ranges get extra favorable for really folks being out fishing,” mentioned Caspers.

Data collected from anglers in the course of the survey is effective when managing the Crimson River fishery.

“We want good knowledge to have the ability to make good choices about learn how to handle our fisheries. So any anglers that encounter the creel clerk or discover a kind of playing cards left on their car in the event that they’re a ship angler, I extremely encourage them to only take a couple of minutes and discuss to the creel clerk or take a couple of minutes and fill out that on-line survey,” mentioned Caspers.

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