Embrace-A-Stream goshute project

Trout Unlimited Research Helps Goshute's Native Trout Program (one of the best Tribal Native Fish Programs in the Western U.S.)
		The Goshute Project in 2003-2004 the program got a boost from NASA and the U.S. Navy when, in conjunction with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe (ID) it assisted in field testing, with success, a infrared fish detector, to monitoring fry leaving the 'Ole fridge" unit on the Goshute Project (NV/UT). The project includes a 4,500 acre riparian conservation area with 13-stream miles, two brood ponds and 3-spawning channels, set aside for Bonneville cutthroat trout recovery on the west side of the Deep Creek Mountain Range, and a series of 4-brood ponds and two spawning channels on the Deep Creek Mountain Ranch, on the eastside of the Range, operated by Buck Douglass, a TU chapter member. The NASA "test fridge" was setup and monitored on the DCMR. A link to an ARGOS satellite provided the data transmission to computer monitors so that TU could track progress of egg hatching and fry movement from the 'ole fridge as it happened. Some 1,800 BCT eggs were successfully hatched in 2004 and went into a fry brood pond on the DCMR. Fry and other juvenile BCT were used by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) for stocking other eastside streams (on BLM lands) for sport fish opportunities. The ShoBan Tribe had successfully tested the fish detector technique the last several years for Pacific salmon and steelhead as a school project with their High School in Blackfoot, ID. The GBCTU and the UTU provide volunteers to assist the Goshute Tribe, the DCMR, and agencies to monitor and maintain the brood ponds and spawning channels for natural BCT production.
ShoBans who visited Goshutes to give NASA license to them/TU

TU/ShoBan leaders with NASA "hatching cooler" used for link to satellite for BCT egg hatch monitoring


		The native redfish, Bonneville cutthroat, (above) is being conserved by the Goshute Tribe, as well as being managed for future sport fish opportunities under the Tribal Wildlife Program as a future recreational revenue source as a Utah Blue Ribbon fishery for the Tribe (left: a five lb. Bonneville under a catch & release program in Wyoming).


		Steve's Pond (above), a GNRC Project by Buck Douglass &Tribal Members provides sport fish recreation for members, especially at Kid's Fishing Day in June (above).
Fifteenmile Pond (above) constructed by Goshute Natural Resource Commission, Trout Unlimited, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may serve as a Tribal conservation and sport fishing water for Tribal members.