Are Pennsylvania's trout stocking practices harmful to the native brook trout?
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- It's the calm before the storm, as Pennsylvania is just days from the opening of yet another trout season.
“This has been hiding in plain sight for quite a long time," said James Suleski, a board of member of the Native Fish Coalition's Pennsylvania chapter.
Standing outside one of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission's fish hatcheries, Suleski explains what he says is a problem many anglers aren't aware of.
“What [the public doesn't] know and what Pennsylvania Fish & Boat hasn’t shared with them is that brown and rainbow trout that are stocked are actually ranked as some of the world’s most highly invasive species," he said.
In 2023, the Fish and Boat Commission will stock 3.2 million adult trout across our state’s lakes and streams.
Nearly 94% will be brown and rainbow trout, which are both non-native to Pennsylvania.
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Development is it's biggest threat! Keep building convenient stores and Dollar Generals every half mile!
99% of stocked trout don't live past July. They stocked a creek today by me dumped them off a bridge and was probably 100 dead trout at the bridge and down river. Most people don't realize trout sink and float belly up when they are dead so therefore don't realize how many die soon after stockings take place. The entire trout stocking program in Pennsylvania is a damn joke and nothing but a cash grab that fish and boat continue to raise the price on the trout permit. They stock when creeks and rivers are in fields and woods chocolate milk color and those trout die. Look what happens to the hatcheries a few years ago when they had to much muddy water mass die off before they even stocked. I personally would prefer they focused on brook trout then the pellet heads they dump in creeks and rivers now
There’s a simple solution to this. Don’t stock on wild trout waters. Idk why pa continues to do this.
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Yes.
I agree with the part of the argument that the stock trout compete for resources and that impact is a negative one on the native fish. But how many of the stocked trout survive the season? How many actually breed and increase the population of the stock strain of trout?
Doesn't matter if they survive. They are restocked multiple times a year. So they are constantly competing with brookies regardless of reproduction rates in non natives