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Introduced fish quiz

This 10-question quiz goes with the curriculum page on Introduced fish. Just answer the questions with a mouse click in front of the correct answer and your score will be compiled when you're done. Good luck!

1. Rainbow, brown and brook trout were introduced into drainages that fed into Montana in:

1850
1878
1889
1901

2. The first hatchery in Montana was a federal hatchery which began raising fish in 1897 at:

Bozeman
Billings
Butte
Miles City

3. Montana built its first state hatchery at:

Hamilton
Anaconda
Lewistown
Great Falls

4. Which of following is an introduced species:

Paddlefish
Stonecat
White sucker
Largemouth bass

5. What is a fish car?

A little car that fish drive
A Fish and Game car with a fish picture on its side
A car powered by fish oil
A railroad car that transported fish

6. For its first 50 years, most fisheries work in Montana had to do with:

Raising fish at hatcheries and stocking them
Doing test netting to count fish
Mapping lakes and rivers
Figuring out what fish eat.

7. Of the 45 fish species found in the Missouri River below Fort Peck Dam, how many of them are introduced species?

12
14
15
23

8. Commercial netting was once done on Nelson Reservoir and boxcars full of fish were sold. What species were they hoping to net and sell?

Common carp
Lake whitefish
Walleye
Yellow perch

9. A major hatchery for warm water fish species was built in Eastern Montana and was first run by the federal government and later by the state. It was at:

Great Falls
Billings
Lewistown
Miles City

10. Montana sold its first resident hunting and fishing license in 1905 and it cost:

One dollar
Two dollars
Five dollars
Ten dollars



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