Ask the Master Naturalist: How Minnesota lakes are chosen for fish stocking

Ask the Master Naturalist: How Minnesota lakes are chosen for fish stocking

Question: What fish are stocked in Minnesota, and who stocks them? Answer: Most of us know that the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources stocks fish throughout Minnesota, but it’s not well known that the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe also stocks fish in some of our area lakes. The Minnesota DNR rears and stocks walleyes, of course, but also catfish, muskellunge, smallmouth bass, stream trout (brown, rainbow and brook), lake trout, and salmon. T…

IDFG to Stock Area Waters With Nearly 28,000 Trout in June

LEWISTON, ID – Many of the region’s lakes and ponds are soon going to be bolstered with Idaho Fish and Game stocking nearly 28,000 catchable-sized trout this June. Campbells Pond – 1,000 rainbow trout Deer Creek Reservoir – 2,100 rainbow trout and 2,500 tiger trout Deyo Reservoir – 4,000 Elk Creek Reservoir – 4,300 rainbow trout Fenn Pond – 1,000 rainbow trout Moose Creek Reservoir – 3,000 rainbow trout Spring Valley Reservoir – 4,000 rainbow t…