BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — The perch killers arrived at Phillips Reservoir under cover of night. All 25,000 of them. A truck emptied its cargo of juvenile tiger muskies, a sterile hybrid fish with an insatiable appetite, into the Baker County reservoir Tuesday evening. Officials from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife hope the voracious tiger muskies will end the nearly 20-year reign of yellow perch in a reservoir that used to be one of the prime rainbow trout-fishing spots in Eastern Oregon. Since some anonymous person illegally released yellow perch in Phillips Reservoir, the number of angler visits there has plummeted by about 90 percent, said Tim Bailey, the district fish biologist...
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