EAST HADDAM, Conn. — From upstream, from downstream, and from everywhere in between Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection teams from the Fisheries Division are busy this time of year and, among their top tasks, center around trout stocking.
Matt Devine, a fisheries biologist from Connecticut DEEP said, “We will stock about 500 thousand trout and there are Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Brown Trout and Tiger Trout and we’ll spread the to all corners of the state and everywhere in between.”
Typically, from March to mid-May the fisheries teams are on the road each day stocking trout. Pete Aarrestad, the director of the Fisheries Division said, “Every day of the week, Monday to Friday we’re running several trucks at a time.” Aarrestad, a 40-year veteran of his department at the Fisheries Division added, “we’re just happy to do this and make fish available to people all over the state.”
Working on a stretch of the Eight Mile River at Devil's Hopyard State Park, Devine said that the trout stocking creates opportunity for all types of fishermen, “the message is to get out and enjoy it,” and he then added, “Big water, small water we stock in the Spring in 102 lakes and ponds and 154 rivers and stream segments – go out and find new places to fish.”
Jimmy Altman is a reporter at FOX61 News. He can be reached at jaltman@fox61.com. Follow him on Facebook, X and Instagram.
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