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Article: DNR keeps trout stocking to a minimum; Urban ponds are the exceptions this year
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2005
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Except for specially designated urban waters, there was no
stocking of legal-size yearling trout in Southern Wisconsin by the
Department of Natural Resources this spring.
However, because a surplus of trout at the state hatchery at
Brule, some waters in northern part of the state were stocked with
yearling fish this spring, according to DNR fisheries biologists
"Nothing was scheduled to be stocked this year as yearlings
statewide except the urban ponds," said Larry Claggett, coldwater
fisheries biologist with the DNR in Madison,
But, Claggett said, surplus yearling trout became available at the
Brule hatchery.
"At the fish hatchery, they do counts as fish mature," Claggett
explained. "If ...