{"id":176196,"date":"2019-05-13T00:53:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/?p=176196"},"modified":"2019-05-13T00:53:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:53:24","slug":"spring-spawning-efforts-on-lake-sakakawea-confirm-quality-fishery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/spring-spawning-efforts-on-lake-sakakawea-confirm-quality-fishery\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring spawning efforts on Lake Sakakawea confirm quality fishery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minotdailynews.com\/news\/local-news\/2019\/05\/spring-spawning-efforts-on-lake-sakakawea-confirm-quality-fishery\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-176197 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/05\/12-Fish-spawn1-1100x825-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/05\/12-Fish-spawn1-1100x825-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/05\/12-Fish-spawn1-1100x825-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/05\/12-Fish-spawn1-1100x825-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/05\/12-Fish-spawn1-1100x825-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/05\/12-Fish-spawn1-1100x825.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Kim Fundingsland\/MDN While an interested observer watches, fisheries biologists attend to eggs taken from spawning walleyes at Lake Sakakawea\u2019s Parshall Bay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PARSHALL \u2013 It happens every spring but, my oh my, it\u2019s definitely not always like this.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota Game and Fish biologists have been conducting their annual spring walleye spawning operations on Lake Sakakawea in recent days and the results have been extremely good, maybe the best ever in the history of the state\u2019s biggest body of water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall the fishery has probably never been in better shape,\u201d said Dave Fryda, NDG&amp;F Missouri River System fisheries supervisor. \u201cThere\u2019s record abundance, good size structure and strong, young year classes. There\u2019s lots of nice, big fish in good condition. Egg quality is good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minotdailynews.com\/news\/local-news\/2019\/05\/spring-spawning-efforts-on-lake-sakakawea-confirm-quality-fishery\/\">Spring spawning efforts on Lake Sakakawea confirm quality fishery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Fundingsland\/MDN While an interested observer watches, fisheries biologists attend to eggs taken from spawning walleyes at Lake Sakakawea\u2019s Parshall Bay. PARSHALL \u2013 It happens every spring but, my oh my, it\u2019s definitely not always like this. North Dakota Game and Fish biologists have been conducting their annual spring walleye spawning operations on Lake Sakakawea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":176197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176198,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176196\/revisions\/176198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}