the lakes and streams should be planted for the reasons stated in 

 point two. There are a goodly number of lakes which do not have 

 adequate spawning facilities to provide a maximum trout population 

 under moderate fishing pressure. These should be planted. On the 

 other hand, the spawning areas in streams are usually far more 

 than adequate to provide naturally propagated trout in quantities to 

 saturate the productive capacity of the stream. Hatchery fish put in 



such streams are unable to compete with natur- 

 Most Controversial ally produced trout, and a majority of them will 

 Points In Hatchery die if they are not caught within a very short 

 Management time after they are planted. Obviously, fry and 



fingerling ti'out cannot be harvested soon after 

 they are planted. It would be most desirable if these fish could 

 be planted to live and enter the catch at some later date, in fact, that 

 has been the hope behind the liberation of untold millions of fish. 

 From the best information available at the present time, it appears 

 that this does not happen, and fisheries managers and sportsmen 

 alike must be realistic in accepting this. 



Since plantings of most streams cannot be justified under con- 

 ditions stated in point two, can these streams be indiscriminately 

 stocked for reasons stated in point three ? Since the streams already 

 populated with trout cannot be planted successfully with fish that 

 are intended to live and grow for a considerable period of time until 

 they are caught, the only alternative is that these fish be planted 

 at a size where they are available to the angler immediately. This 

 is put-and-take stocking. 



From the consideration of economics given earlier, it can be 

 seen that this type of fish planting can be done only at a heavy 

 financial drain on the fishery program. Put-and-take stocking must 

 be done judicially and not indiscriminately. These trout must be 

 planted in places, in such manner, and at such times that most 

 of them may be caught in a relatively short time by the greatest 

 number of fishermen. The planting policy is stated to accomplish 

 this. 



Policy Would Shift Emphasis From Stream To Lake 



One of the intentions in the stocking and management policy is 

 that emphasis will be shifted from stream planting to lake planting. 

 Stream planting is expensive and return to the creel is poor. Smaller 

 size fish may be planted in lakes with higher survival. In the past, 

 lake management has not been given adequate attention, with the 

 result that poor lake fishing has channeled fishermen to streams 

 where naturally produced fish were more abundant and where fishing 

 has been better. It is the desire now under this "new-look" at the 

 fisheiies resource to build up lake fishing to where it shoulders mcAe 

 of the fishing load. 



In the past the numbers of trout planted in lakes has often been 

 very low, even as low as one fish or less per acre. As these fish spread 

 out over the area of the lake, they became so "dilute" that the 

 chances of an angler encountering a fish were low, making fishing 



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