Article: The Lehigh as a trout mecca?: For the first time, state to stock browns and rainbows down river. Sportsmen's groups laud the move.

Byline: Christian Berg

Feb. 27--The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will stock 50,000 juvenile trout in the Lehigh River this spring, part of an ongoing effort to enhance the river's coldwater fishery. The agency plans to release 30,000 brown trout and 20,000 rainbow trout throughout a 24-mile section of the river from the confluence of Sandy Run in Luzerne County downstream to Palmerton in Carbon County. The trout will be released as fingerlings -- young fish that measure 3 to 4 inches long. Biologist Dave Arnold, the commission's regional fisheries manager, said rainbow trout released this spring could reach the minimum, legal harvest size of ...

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