Jennifer Johnson holds a walleye captured during DeSoto Lake sampling efforts in 2006. Walleye are a valued species at DeSoto NWR and have made up a large segment of our database and our management efforts over the past 3 years.

The Columbia National Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office, DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission met this month to discuss the results of our sampling efforts and the future stocking/assessment plans at DeSoto Lake.  It was a great opportunity for us, as a group, to provide fisheries management recommendations to DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge based on multiple years of data collected from DeSoto Lake.  The meeting focused on the results of an intensive 3 year fishery management project that started in 2006 ended in 2008.