Disease strikes Idaho fish hatchery, killing 250,000 rainbows. By John Miller. Associated Press.
"Ich" hits Idaho state fish hatchery for the second year in a row.
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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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Ich can be effectively controlled by repeated dosing of hydrogen peroxide in confined or flowing stream fish populations. We thought this was well known.