LAKE STOCKED WITH CRAPPIE

CARLYLE, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Conservation fisheries biologists recently placed 403,000 white crappie fingerlings into Carlyle Lake.

The experimental project, in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of engineers, was undertaken in response to the low population of crappie in the lake.

Researchers from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale assisted with the harvest of fingerlings and marked 27 percent of them with a bath of oxy-tetracycline, a fish antibiotic. The substance will leave a visible mark in the crappies' ear bones and will allow researchers to determine the relative numbers of stock versus naturally spawned fish. An assessment of the stocking will continue into 1992.