Can catfish control nuisance bullheads? UND-North Dakota Game ...
FORDVILLE DAM, N.D. – On a steamy Wednesday in late July – easily one of the hottest days of the summer to date – Tyler Bennett and Will Johnson la...
FORDVILLE DAM, N.D. – On a steamy Wednesday in late July – easily one of the hottest days of the summer to date – Tyler Bennett and Will Johnson launched their jonboat into Fordville Dam to pull trapnets and gillnets they'd set the previous day in the name of research. Their goal: Catch black bullheads – as many as possible – on a day with sweltering heat and no wind. Not surprisingly, they had the place to themselves. Bennett, a UND master's degree student from Chicago, is overseeing the fieldwork portion of a collaborative research project between the North Dakota Game and Fish Department and UND to see if introducing channel catfish can help reduce bullhead numbers in lakes where the undesirable species is too abundant.