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Trout

Bath Fish Hatchery: Home to Wild Finger Lakes Strain Rainbow Trout

October 2, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Bath Fish HatcheryEstablished in 1893, New York State’s Bath Fish Hatchery in Steuben County and is one of the state’s oldest hatcheries and the only hatchery raising wild Finger Lakes strain rainbow trout. [Read more…] about Bath Fish Hatchery: Home to Wild Finger Lakes Strain Rainbow Trout

Filed Under: Nature, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: Bath, Bath Fish Hatchery, Broome County, Canadice lake, Canandaigua Lake, Cayuga County, Cayuga Lake, Chemung County, Finger Lakes, fish, Fisheries, fishing, Hemlock Lake, Keuka Lake, Lake Champlain, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Otsego Lake, Owasco Lake, Schuyler County, Seneca County, Seneca Lake, Skaneateles Lake, Steuben County, Tioga County, Tompkins County, Trout, Yates County

Illegal Commercialization of Trout Charges Filed

September 19, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Trout purchased during undercover operation in Orange County in 2023 (DEC photo)On August 14, 2023, a Deerpark, Orange County resident entered pleas of not guilty in Deerpark Town Court to charges related to the illegal commercialization of trout.

The arraignment followed a months-long investigation stemming from a tip alleging the subject was selling trout by the Neversink River. [Read more…] about Illegal Commercialization of Trout Charges Filed

Filed Under: Food, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Crime and Justice, Deerpark, ECOs, fish, fishing, Neversink River, Orange County, Trout

Catskill Fish Hatchery: Home of Historic Trout Fishing

August 19, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Catskill Fish Hatchery in Livingston ManorIn the 1890s as the Catskills was becoming a very popular summer resort, in part due to the service provided by the New York, Ontario and Western Railway (O&W), the people of Sullivan County sought to have their own fish hatchery. [Read more…] about Catskill Fish Hatchery: Home of Historic Trout Fishing

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Beaverkill (Sullivan County), Catskill Fish Hatchery, Catskills, fish, Fisheries, fishing, Livingston Manor, Mongaup State Campground, Ontario & Western Railway, Rockland, Roswell P. Flower, Sullivan County, Trout, Wildlife, Willowemoc Creek

Rome Fish Hatchery: One of New York’s DEC’s Largest

July 31, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Rome Fish Hatchery provided by DECLocated in Oneida County a few miles north of the City of Rome, the Rome Fish Hatchery is one of DEC’s largest and central to many stocking locations. Brown trout and lake trout are raised there and hatchery staff play a major role in providing fish for airplane and helicopter stocking of remote waters. [Read more…] about Rome Fish Hatchery: One of New York’s DEC’s Largest

Filed Under: History, Mohawk Valley, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: fish, Fisheries, Oneida County, Rome, Rome Fish Hatchery, Trout, Wildlife

Swimmers & Anglers: Give Trout A Break In This Summer’s Heat

July 22, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

rock dam in stream (DEC)You know who isn’t a huge fan of summer? Trout. Summer heat waves impose serious stress and can even cause death. Trout and salmon that are already heat-stressed may not recover after being caught and released.

You can help these fish survive the summer by following a few simple tips: [Read more…] about Swimmers & Anglers: Give Trout A Break In This Summer’s Heat

Filed Under: Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Climate Change, fish, Fisheries, fishing, Summer, swimming, Trout, weather

Lake Trout Research Underway on Lake Ontario

July 15, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Wild Lake TroutThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in collaboration with the U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Fisheries, with outreach assistance from New York Sea Grant (NYSG) has been collecting research data on Lake Ontario lake trout movement using acoustic telemetry tags. [Read more…] about Lake Trout Research Underway on Lake Ontario

Filed Under: Nature, Recreation Tagged With: DEC, fish, Fish and Wildlife Service, Fisheries, fishing, Great Lakes, Lake Ontario, Science, Trout, USGS

Randolph Fish Hatchery: A Major Broodstock Facility

June 30, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Randolph Fish Hatchery From the second week of September through mid-October, Randolph Fish Hatchery staff collect close to 5.5 million eggs from broodstock brook, brown and rainbow trout and ship them out to other New York State Department of Environmental Conservation hatcheries to be reared, then stocked. [Read more…] about Randolph Fish Hatchery: A Major Broodstock Facility

Filed Under: History, Nature, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: Cattaraugus County, DEC, Fisheries, fishing, Randolph, Randolph Fish Hatchery, Trout

Ausable River East Branch Rehabilitation Update

June 4, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

excavators placing stone and moving material in the Ausable River courtesy AsRAThis summer, the Ausable River Association (AsRA) will undertake the second phase of construction in its Ausable River East Branch Restoration Program with Project Area 2 in Upper Jay, in the Adirondack Park in Essex County. This comprehensive program, developed in 2019 with funding from the Governor’s Office for Storm Recovery (now the Office of Resilient Homes and Communities), identifies 13 sites in the Town of Jay in need of restoration. Completing these river restoration projects will improve flood resilience, protect communities and infrastructure, and restore habitat for the food web that supports our native brook trout. [Read more…] about Ausable River East Branch Rehabilitation Update

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Ausable River, Ausable River Association, Environmental History, fishing, floods, Jay, Route 9N, Transportation, Trout

Hatchery Highlight: South Otselic Fish Hatchery

May 28, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

South Otselic Fish HatcheryThe South Otselic Fish Hatchery is located in South Otselic, about 15 miles west of Sherburne.in Chenango County, and raises walleye and brook trout. [Read more…] about Hatchery Highlight: South Otselic Fish Hatchery

Filed Under: Nature, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: Cayuga Lake, Chenango County, DEC, fish, Fisheries, South Otselic Fish Hatchery, Trout, Wildlife

As Lake Champlain Lake Trout Rebound, Stocking Reduced

March 18, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Lake Champlain Lake Trout courtesy DECThe Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative – a working group of fisheries professionals from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – have announced the decision to further reduce the number of stocked lake trout released annually into Lake Champlain waters. They said this decision was prompted by the continued increase in natural reproduction and the documentation of multiple age classes of wild fish. [Read more…] about As Lake Champlain Lake Trout Rebound, Stocking Reduced

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: DEC, fish, Fisheries, fishing, Lake Champlain, nature, Trout, Wildlife

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