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Article: State to stock rainbow trout
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- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- August 17, 2007
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GREENWOOD - The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
is adopting a rainbow trout stocking program for only the second time
in more than 30 years.
Because rainbow trout are not native to Maine, the department is
erring on the side of caution, selectively stocking certain waters so
they don't displace native and wild brook trout and salmon, according
to MDIF&W Director of Fisheries Jeff Boland.
"Some of us have been pushing for rainbows and to consider a state
program," Boland said Wednesday by phone in Augusta. "Six to eight
years ago, we laid the groundwork for it and identified a very clear
study with an experimental program. Now that we've reached the end of
the study, we've ...