Fact that brown trout ranked by EBTJV as third largest disturbance in PA AHEAD of sedimentation and urbanization and a new journal article gets published every few months on the dangers of invasive trout to native trout gives them no pause. PA fish and boat must think we are illiterate if biologists are e-mailing responses like the one fish jake received when people ask about potential harms of the hatchery program.
Pa fish and boat just keeps on stocking in the name of almighty license sales(ironically financially unsustainable hatchery program driving up cost of license). Theres no amount of fisheries scientists, anglers, wild trout symposiums, regionaly meeting with EAstern Brook Trout Joint Venture or conservationists they can’t ignore for the politics that enable this train all us Pennsylvanians can’t get off. No amount of shame and dereliction of duty is going to cause them to change anything.
He** lets designate another watershed with only brown trout catch and release and not allow stocking in it and just shift the fish to kettle creek. Whats 100,000 stockers when your already hitting it with 60k. Lets make sure we put C and R where the stocked trout go too.
Other graph above shows multiple non native trout species(brown and rainbows) as 4th largest threat range wide. Notice
Brown trout 7th(on there twice) range wide. Hmm wonder why brown trout in the first PA specific disturbance graph seem to be a larger problem(ranked 3rd) in PA than range wide comparatively as a disturbance?????
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Someone get the hardy brothers because its a GD mystery.