Nearly 13,000 Pike Removed From Lake Roosevelt Since 2015, 3,658 Last Year; Co-Managers Report Funding Shortfalls To Maintain Effort

Since 2015, when the efforts to suppress or eradicate non-native northern pike from Lake Roosevelt began, nearly 13,000 of the voracious fish have been removed from the huge reservoir that backs up behind Grand Coulee Dam on the upper Columbia River.