steveo
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http://wvmetronews.com/2017/11/04/dnr-looks-to-enhance-native-brook-trout-waters/
steveo wrote:
http://wvmetronews.com/2017/11/04/dnr-looks-to-enhance-native-brook-trout-waters/
troutbert wrote:
if the conditions are right, wild brook trout will already be there, filling in from the headwaters and tributaries.
troutbert wrote:
I read the article.
Raising and stocking hatchery fish with the goal of improving wild brook trout populations doesn't make sense.
In nearly all cases, if the conditions are right, wild brook trout will already be there, filling in from the headwaters and tributaries.
In the very rare event that a polluted stream is cleaned up, and it is totally isolated, with no connection to waters with wild brook trout, then all that is needed is for brook trout to be introduced. Which can be done by moving some brook trout over from another stream.
And that just needs to be done once. There is no need for, and no benefit from, a continuing stocking program.
It will not benefit the brook trout populations. It's a waste of money.
And there could be genetic issues. When you put wild trout in hatcheries, you very quickly begin altering their genetics.