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YET....not one person on here that I can see has mentioned TU’s desire to have the creel limit on brook trout reduced from 12 to 6. MAYBE this guy from Montana is just trying to open our eyes to the fact that TU may not always have traditional core values of Vermonters in mind. Example being there is no scientific data showing the need to reduce brook trout creel limits and that biologists in Vermont do not recommend the change...yet they charge along...just an issue we’ll be facing soon enough.
I spoke with my representative Leland Morgan on Friday. He informed me that It would cost $7M for a filtering system that is required to keep the hatchery open after its permit expires shortly. It currently cost $250,000 a year to run the hatchery. Between those two things it has been decided to close the hatchery. It is going to happen. The plan is to distribute what was being raised in Salsbury to other hatcheries by making the other hatcheries more efficient. Leland said we should not see much of a change across the state with our current stocking program. Let's hope this is the case.
Well this Leland guy is wrong and towing the Scott admin line. Look at the proposal. They want you to believe that not stocking any trout in statewide will have no impact. That is false. Don’t bend over and take it. Look at the Champlain salmon fishery, 2 years where the fish stocked didn’t take well, and the ENTIRE fishery basically collapsed, and that was with stocking, just low survival.The lifespan of a rainbow or brown trout is give or take 4-5 years. That means that a 1 year old fish stocked, has 3-4 lake years in it, that’s assuming 100% survival.The reality is the vast majority of our stocked fish are caught in the first year. The state plan is to halt fish stocking for browns and rainbows for 2022, 2023, and 2024. If that happens tell me how many fish from the 2021 and 2020 stocking classes will be left to catch. For lakes with browns and bows, we will not see a return of “normal” until 2027-28 in all likelihood. For lakers it’s much worse.no stocking from 2022 until 2028, because of longer lives the laker fishing will seem ok for a longer time, as the bows and browns disappear more will target lakers, but those 10-12 and 15 lb 30-35 inch lakers take 10-15 years to reach that size. So as stocks in lakes drop off we will be left in 2028 with a bunch of 11 inch lakers, that will take until the mid 2030’s to reach maturity. Call me crazy but an impact felt for over a decade is quite the impact.
In the analysis that FW provided as part of the proposal. Can’t find it on their site, likely not a public doc, but was shared out on a different site.https://doc-0g-54-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/d2m8gr4v9phgi0jhd3c0cgpcnc6h5f9g/1549879200000/09661348033359379843/*/1D97T0jUvaMGdiIHgIJbubMNCHAllWOA5?e=download
https://www.change.org/p/phil-scott-save-the-salisbury-fish-hatchery-and-trout-fishing-in-vermont?recruiter=481857506&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petitionPlease sign this petition we have almost 800 signatures so far, I think if we can get a bunch more we can put the pressure on, and get a solution that works for everyone!
good editorial in addison paperhttp://www.addisonindependent.com/201902editorial-closing-hatchery-worse-just-lousy-math-its-poor-policy