Stocking Over Wild Native Fish: It’s Time to Reel it In
“Biologists have a term for stocking over wild fish: Supplementary stocking. Supplemental means that the stocked fish are ‘in addition to’ wild fish. Stocking over wild fish disrupts natural spawning, and in many cases has the opposite effect of what is intended. We do it try to appease anglers who want more from the resource than it can naturally provide. ”
NFC Executive director bob Mallard speaks up against stocking over wild native fish in Maine. While the powers that be say they don’t do it, they do, and in some of the worse possible places to do so…