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Fishing limited on Big Hole
Associated Press
HELENA (AP) - Fishing is being banned on a 19-mile stretch of the upper Big Hole River because of extremely low water levels, the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced Tuesday.
The water is so low that it threatens the survival of the river's native Arctic grayling population, the agency said.
The average daily flow has dropped below 20 cubic feet per second at the U.S. Geological Survey gauge at Wisdom. That level is the "critically low" flow specified in the Big Hole Drought Management Plan.
The closure includes the uppermost reach of the river near Wisdom, a 19-mile stretch from Rock Creek Road to the mouth of the North Fork of the Big Hole, about 14 miles downstream from Wisdom.
This stretch includes most of the river's critical grayling spawning and rearing habitats.
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