Fourteen thousand juvenile trout were released Tuesday into Moberly Lake at Spence Tuck Regional Park near Chetwynd as part of a six-year project launched in 2010 to rebuild a declining population.
The release was the second of three over the six-year period, with the goal of increasing the number of trout in the lake to at least 5,000 adult fish.
Fourteen thousand trout were previously released in 2012.
The number had dropped to less than 400 due to overfishing, officials said.
In fall 2012, eggs and semen from spawning lake trout in in the lake were collected and the fertilized eggs were transported to the B.C. Freshwater Fisheries Society's hatchery in Clearwater where they were incubated and grown into yearlings large enough to be released into their
natural habitat.
The next release is scheduled for spring 2016. Moberly Lake is located 330 km north of Prince George.
