Annual Trout Stocking mtg. TOMORROW

[Bucksnbows]

The NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife is holding its annual trout stocking meeting tomorrow, a month later than normal, at Centenary College in Hackettstown, NJ at 10 am.  The reason for the time and venue change is due to a disease outbreak at the state's trout hatchery.  Here's a link to tomorrow's meeting and more on furunculosis, the disease infecting some of the hatchery trout.

 

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/news/2014/troutmtg14.htm

Edited March 8, 2014 by Bucksnbows

[Bucksnbows]

Some rivers and ponds that don't typically get stocked with trout such as the lower Passaic and the Hackensack will see tens of thousands of trout this year in an effort to ensure no disease carrying trout are stocked into waters with wild trout in them.  So get out there and bend some rods on Opening Day on those waters where trout will not survive after late June.  But please consider limiting your catch on our normal trout waters which will have far fewer trout stocked and will have wild and holdover fish in them mostly this year.   

[Palawman30]

Do they stock any rivers up north that run out to the sea? Always wondered if any trout made it out there

[Bucksnbows]

Do they stock any rivers up north that run out to the sea? Always wondered if any trout made it out there

 

Yes, but not "up north".  They stock the Manasquan with surplus brown trout each year and there are some that go sea run (or at least into the brackish water) and then return.  But we'll never see a world class sea run trout fishery this far south in the Atlantic Ocean.    

[runum n gunum]

Any updates from the meeting?