Meade Run is the only stream so designated in McKean County. 21 to the Mentored Youth Trout Fishing Day and the opening day of the regular trout season in April, unless waters are included in the Stocked Trout Waters Open to Year-Round Fishing program. 21.įishing is not permitted on lakes and streams designated as Stocked Trout Waters from Feb. To accommodate the earlier statewide trout season, preseason trout stocking operations were set to begin the week of Feb. Pennsylvania will return to a single, statewide opening day for trout season this year, while a single, statewide Mentored Youth Trout Day is set for Saturday, March 26. Marilla Reservoir is set to be stocked in early March, early April, in the second week of May and then again in December, while Smethport’s Hamlin Lake will be stocked later this month, in early April and later in May. This stretch may be fished year-round, as wells as the West Branch of the Tunugwant Creek, which flows through the Pitt-Bradford campus. Other stockings are set for March, including the delayed harvest, artificial lures only stretch of the Kinzua Creek from the Guffey Road bridge down to the boundary line of the Allegheny National Forest near Westline. 25, which includes a fly fishing only, catch-and-release stretch that is open to fishing year-round. In McKean County, the first stocking gets underway on the Marvin Creek, scheduled for Feb. The trout stocking schedule is searchable by county, lists the waterways in alphabetical order, and indicates stocking dates, meeting locations for volunteers and the species of trout that will be stocked. “This schedule is our roadmap for stocking millions of trout into hundreds of waterways across the state before and during the trout season, which is no small task.” “The release of our trout stocking schedule is always a welcome reminder that spring is just around the corner,” Brian Wisner, director of the PFBC Bureau of Hatcheries, said. The schedule is available using the FishBoatPA mobile app and on the commission’s website. Trout season opens statewide on Saturday, April 2, and the PFBC has released its stocking schedule, with 3.2 million trout planned for 696 streams and 128 lakes. With the calendar - and assuredly the weather - stating that it’s the dead of winter, it’s hopeful to note that in only about three weeks the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will begin stocking trout for the 2022 fishing season.
While I found that there would be more trout in these streams if we eliminated stocking, I calculated that there would be less economic benefit for the state of Pennsylvania if stocking were eliminated.The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has released its trout stocking list for the 2022 season. I found that once we stop stocking these twelve sections, there will be more trout biomass in these streams from wild trout populations than from previously stocked and wild trout populations combined. I calculated the results of eliminating stocking in twelve “Class A”, wild trout streams that are currently being stocked by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC). Using the literature, I found stocking trout has numerous harmful ecological impacts on native and wild trout as well as the ecosystems they inhabit. Stocking hatchery trout when wild trout are already present in bodies of water has been shown to reduce the wild trout population and potentially reduce angler catch rates. Along with the native brook trout, additional hatchery trout are added to the streams these non-native wild trout inhabit in the hopes of providing more fish for anglers to catch and greater economic benefit to the state of Pennsylvania. From this practice of stocking, non-native brown and rainbow trout have reproduced and spread throughout the many freshwater streams of Pennsylvania, building a population of non-native wild trout. Submitted to the Departments of Economics and Environmental Scienceĭescription: Trout stocking has been a means to supplement ailing freshwater systems and provide greater recreational opportunities for anglers. Senior Capstone Experience by Willie Cosner ’21
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