I'd like to see PFBC acquire more PFR's, no arguments there.
We've talked stocking reform to death on this forum, but generally speaking the most trash and poor angler behavior I've seen happens in April near opening day on stocked streams. I'd venture to say that posting of land has a lot to do with that. My frame of reference is what I see in SEPA, where stocked trout are the norm and a lot of people fishing for said trout will only do so in the spring.
It's a little bit difficult for PFBC to just stop raising trout all of the sudden when a stream gets posted, it takes a year at minimum to get a legal sized trout from a hatchery. Those fish that may have been stocked in a now posted stretch will just get reallocated to another section or stream all together.
It would be nice to see some of the financial resources be reallocated to other projects, but any change will not be instant.
