12. Streams warranting plants of fish 

 shall be stocked each year. 



Lake Planting and Management 



1. Only grayling, cutthroat trout, rain- 

 bow trout or golden trout shall be reg- 

 ularly planted in the lakes ol Montana. 

 Kokanee, lake trout and silver salmon 

 may be planted in lakes where it is rec- 

 ommended by the conservation personnel 

 responsible for the fishery management of 

 the specific water and with the written 

 approval of the Superintendent of Fish- 

 eries and the Chief Fisheries Management 

 Biologist of the Montana Fish and Game 

 Department. 



2. Trout, kokanee, silver salmon or 

 grayling planted in Montana lakes shall 

 be advanced fry or fingerling, exceptions 

 to be approved by the Superintendent of 

 Fisheries and the Chief Fisheries Biolo- 

 gist of the Montana Fish and Game De- 

 partment. 



3. Lakes shall be planted only where 

 spawning is non-existant or inadequate 

 to provide a fishable population. 



4. Not less than one-hundred fish shall 

 be planted per surface acre of lakes. The 

 number of surface acres shall be deter- 

 mined during the lowest annual lake 

 level. 



5. Continued plants of fish in any lake 

 shall be dependent and based upon a 

 reasonable return of the planted fish to 

 the creel. 



6. Fish planted in lakes shall be well 

 distributed in the littoral zone. 



7. Planting boats shall be used to 

 release fish when planting accessible 

 lakes. 



8. Specific plants in specific waters 

 by airplane shall be allowed when ac- 

 complished under the direction of the 

 conservation personnel responsible for the 

 fishery management wherein the fish are 

 to be planted and with the written ap- 

 proval of the Superintendent of Fisheries 

 and the Chief Fisheries Management Bi- 

 ologist of the Montana Fish and Game 

 Department. 



Ranch Pond Planting and Management 



1. No pond in Montana shall be man- 

 aged, from a fishery standpoint, by the 

 State Fish and Game Department which 

 contains less than one hundred acre feet 

 of wafer and which has less than ten 

 feet of depth over two surface acres dur- 

 ing the lowest pond level. 



2. Suitable ponds shall be planted 

 with fry, fingerling or larger fish of a 

 species determined to be best suited by 



the conservation personnel responsible 

 for the fishery management of the spec- 

 ific water and with the approval of the 

 Superintendent of Fisheries and the Chief 

 Fisheries Management Biologist of the 

 Montana Fish and Game Department. 



3. There shall be no minimum size re- 

 strictions applying to private trout ponds. 



4. Size restrictions applying to \warm 

 water ponds shall be as follows: Ponds 

 less than one-half acre in size shall not 

 be planted. Ponds from one-half to three 

 acres shall not be planted unless 50% 

 of the pond area is at least ten feet deep 

 during the lowest annual pond level. 

 Ponds over three acres shall not be plant- 

 ed unless 20% of the pond area is at 

 least ten feet deep during the lowest an- 

 nual pond level. 



5. All applications for fish to be planted 

 in Montana ponds shall be submitted to 

 the Montana Fish and Game Department 

 and approval must be obtained from the 

 Superintendent of Fisheries and the Chief 

 Fisheries Management Biologist before any 

 plants may be made. 



6. Applications for securing warm water 

 fish shall be approved only if submitted 

 by pond owners or lessees. 



7. The number of fish planted in the 

 suitable ponds of Montana shall be based 

 upon maximum survival and maximum 

 return of the planted fish to the creel. 



8. No black, yellow or brown bullheads 

 (Ameriurus); yellow perch (Perca flaves- 

 cens); or sunfish (Lepomis), with the ex- 

 ception of the common bluegill (Lepomis 

 macrochirus) shall be planted in the ponds 

 of Montana. 



Planting and Management of Waters 

 Affected by Natural or Artificial Disaster 



1. Streams, lakes and ponds from 

 which the fish population has been 

 removed by natural or artificial disaster 

 shall be planted with advanced fry or 

 small fingerling trout or warm water 

 fishes of a species determined to be best 

 suited to the particular water, and not 

 damaging from a fishery standpoint to 

 adjacent waters, by the conservation per- 

 sonnel responsible for the fishery man- 

 agement of that water and with the ap- 

 proval of the Superintendent of Fisheries 

 and the Chief Fisheries Management Bi- 

 ologist of the Montana Fish and Game 

 Department. 



2. Fish planted into such waters shall 

 be widely distributed throughout the 

 stream, lake or pond in which the pop- 

 ulation is to be established and they 

 shall be planted in such a manner so as 

 to obtain maximum survival. 



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