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Institute of Fisheries Research samples Beaver Island lakes (1960)

Also 1960 Beaver Island lake improvement sampling

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era

Summary

Institute of Fisheries Research staff collected fish and food samples from Lakes Geneserath, Fox, Barncoys, and Font in July 1960 for a Department of Conservation lake-improvement program.

Evidence and limits

The newspaper names only “Mr. Rodeheffer” and “Mr. Day” and gives no sampling protocol, measurements, formal agency title, or results. The place link to Lake Geneserath is explicit; the other lake names remain in the source note because the current graph does not yet establish matching place records.

Open questions

  • Which fisheries reports identify the researchers, lakes, methods, and program results?

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, July 1960, fisheries-research notice.
    Reports Mr. Rodeheffer and Mr. Day of the Institute of Fisheries Research collecting fish and food samples on Lakes Geneserath, Fox, Barncoys, and Font as part of a lake-improvement program carried out by the Fish Division of the Department of Conservation. It does not provide first names, methods, measurements, or results.