Feb. 17—CLEAR LAKE — You can tell how heavy the huge net is by how the three handlers heave it into the water from their boat just a few feet off shore.
By Mary Callahan | The Press Democrat
Lead weights along the bottom edge hold it fast to the lake bottom. Cork buoys on top help it stand up in the water like an arcing wall unfurled shore-to-shore around an unseen prey, until gradually, painstakingly, the crew starts reeling it back — yanking it over rocks and detritus until whatever is inside is trapped in a tiny space.
“This will save us a lot of shots in the dark when we’re going for real,” Senior WSB Environmental Scientist Jordan Wein said. But Robinson Rancheria’s environmental staff hopes eradicating invasive, nonnative carp and goldfish may take some of the pressure off the hitch, in part by reducing competition for food as well as direct predation.
“Carp and goldfish are the last ones standing,” California Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish Biologist Ben Ewing said.
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