Two biologists in the American Fisheries Society's western division conducted the blind peer review of the state's 1999 assessment of the bull trout. One of the biologists says the state's status report defies conventional scientific wisdom concerning survival of species numbering 2,000 or less. They are dredging up old news.
Experts are cheap.
Bull trout are federally protected in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The scientists in the state of Nevada are the only ones who say nothing is wrong. We admit they are in low numbers. The fish itself is a glacial relic. It is closely related to glacial systems and there are no glaciers left in Jarbidge.