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kota Game, Fish and Parks Department is evaluating how stocking salmon at different locations might improve survival and catches.
• GF&P Fisheries Biologist Robert Hanten says thousands of specially-tagged Chinook salmon have been stocked in Lake Oahe and implanted with small, coded-wire tags. Although the millimeter-long, hair-thin tags cannot be seen by anglers, tagged fish can be identified by the absence of a tiny fin on their back.
• Hanten says the reporting of tagged salmon is a crucial part of the department's research.
• Ten anglers could earn $100 for their assistance.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has raised its yield forecast for South Dakota's corn crop while dropping its soybean yield estimate.
• Both crops got off to a late start this spring as many farmers were forced to delay planting because of the cool, dry weather.
• But Thursday's report from the department's National Agricultural Statistics Service shows that South Dakota's soybeans are lagging further

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