5/29/18 - Spring Trout Stocking Summary

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5/29/18 - Spring Trout Stocking Summary

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[stratocaster]

No surprise here.  600,000 normal rainbows again.  When the browns and brookies come back so will my license dollars. 

[vdep217]

I herd 4 to 5 years before the race way is ready to handle the Brooks n browns.   They need to be covered in order to prevent the disease that plagued them that forced them to stop.   The disease dosnt effect rainbows....

[GhostBear]

Last I heard, they have no intention of ever stocking brookies again. And only very few Browns.

[Bucksnbows]

First is covering the raceways and that could happen this year although next looks more realistic.  Then they have to find furunculosis free stock from other hatcheries before bringing in browns and brook trout.  Once they have that stock, it will take a couple of years to develop enough fish for eggs.  The timeframe keeps getting pushed back, but that is nothing more than the inefficiencies of your government at work (or not at work as it were).    

[Bucksnbows]

1 minute ago, GhostBear said:

Last I heard, they have no intention of ever stocking brookies again. And only very few Browns.

That is very much incorrect.  The Division has discussed this at each public fisheries meeting since the disease first hit Pequest.  The path is crystal clear.  First was to kill all browns and brookies that showed disease outbreaks - done.  Raise only rainbows that seem disease resistant but that might carry furunculosis until the raceways can be covered permanently - which is ongoing for now.  That is the big holdup, the raceways getting covered permanently.  The Division had the first solar powered plan in the state that would have had our raceways covered two years ago while greatly offsetting their power needs, but State Police and one other agency jumped in front of the Division's Pequest plan, so the hatchery has to wait its turn.  But the plan is and always has been to reintroduce both brown trout and brook trout once again.  The brookies will no longer be stocked over native/wild brook trout, but they will be raising them once again as soon as they can.      

[Dave B.]

It's quite saddening to see how much mis-information has been propagated over the past several years, much of it due solely to some folk's misguided and/or misinformed opinions. We as anglers owe it to ourselves to be as well informed of the facts as we possibly can in all situations pertinent to our freshwater fisheries, and the Bureau of Freshwater Fisheries does a very good job of providing us with opportunities to do so. Between the 3 open public forums held every year around the state and the ready availability to the staff via email and telephone there's no good reason I can see for all the incorrect conjecture that gets bandied about as 'fact'.  Such un-informed comments only serve to foster ill will amongst some anglers towards the very folks who have thus far, and who continue striving to provide us with the incredible variety of species and abundant angling opportunities we're so fortunate to have here in the most densely populated state in the nation.

 If you have a question, concern, or just a differing opinion than the Bureau on an issue you should not hesitate to reach out to the folks at Freshwater Fisheries. All of their contact info is in the Regs Digest as well as on the Div. website. As a default measure you can simply reach out to the general Div email and the folks there will get your question or concern to the proper person(s) and provide you with a reply as promptly as possible.

[Bucksnbows]

You nailed it, Dave B.!