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Beaver Island Wildlife Club releases walleye fingerlings in Lake Geneserath

Also Beaver Island Wildlife Club walleye release 2011

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

Locator map: Lake Geneserath highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
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TypeEvent
Date2011-06-18
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Lake Geneserath highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Lake GeneserathLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
2011-06-18
Kind
Conservation
Where
Lake Geneserath
Carried out by
Beaver Island Wildlife Club
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
conservationwildlifefishingcommunity
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The July 2011 Beacon reports that the Beaver Island Wildlife Club raised walleye fingerlings in a pond near Barney’s Lake. After the trap-net was full on June 17, the club released the inch-long fish into Lake Geneserath on June 18.

Evidence limits

The report documents the club’s release account; it does not provide stocking numbers, a biological survey, or later population results.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, July 2011, "Walleyes Alive!"
    Reports that the Wildlife Club's trap-net was full of inch-long fingerlings when raised near Barney's Lake on June 17 and that the fish were released into Lake Geneserath the next day. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the walleye-raising and release report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-07_Beaver-Beacon

Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Wildlife Club releases walleye fingerlings in Lake Geneserath”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-walleye-release-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2011, "Walleyes Alive!" (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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