NH F&G Ignores NFC Requests to Talk Wild Native Trout Management

For roughly three years, New Hampshire Fish and Game has ignored request after request to discuss wild native trout management with NFC. What responses we have gotten have been slow to come, incomplete, and often inaccurate.

Operating in a near vacuum, with limited opportunity for public input, influence, or disclosure, NH F&G is stocking over wild fish by rule not exception, stocking nonnative trout in critically important wild native brook trout habitat like White Mountain National Forest, and otherwise ignoring best-practice science.

The only formal wild trout program in the state, Wild Trout Management, is stalled out at just 13 small streams and 3 small ponds, and has not seen a water added in over 13 years. And word on the street is that the program will be soon be replaced with a less effective one.

On August 24, 2020, I sent an email to eleven email addresses listed on the New Hampshire Fish and Game website. Twenty-five days later, not a single person has responded. This refusal to act in good faith is why groups submit FOIA’s, legislation, etc.