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There is still so much to be learned from the 45 fish species that live in Montana's Missouri River below Fort Peck Dam. Luckily, new technology is helping biologists to get the job done quicker and better than it has ever been done before. Federal and state agencies and private organizations are helping to solve some of the mysteries of the Missouri. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Geological Survey, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and Walleyes Unlimited of Montana are getting involved in present and future studies that will implant radio transmitters into fish species of the Missouri so they can be tracked over the next few years. Those radio transmitters will help biologists learn where fish go and what they do when they get there. Currently, radio transmitters have been implanted in blue suckers, shovelnose sturgeon and paddlefish in the river. These fish will be tracked beginning in the spring of 2002. In the fall of 2002, more radio transmitters are expected to be put out on sauger, another native fish of the Missouri, to learn more about this species. The information from these studies will help provide biologists with an understanding on where these fish are spawning, where they go during the different seasons, and how they respond to changes in their environment. To learn all about how fish are captured, implanted with transmitters and then followed by biologists, you can go to the following pages: Then it's time to look at the current results of the ongoing study and Find your fish.
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