Brook Trout: Preserving New York's State Fish

Bunchberry · 02-24-2022, 05:06 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cWlEMImik

New York's state freshwater fish is the brook trout. To help preserve heritage strains of brook trout in the Adirondacks, DEC Fisheries staff travel to remote ponds to conduct egg takes. Eggs and milt are taken from captured fish. The eggs are fertilized and taken to a fish hatchery to grow before being stocked in ponds throughout the Adirondacks.

Jwojcik1990 · 02-24-2022, 09:07 PM

I always knew they stocked them this way, but really cool seeing it in action!

geogymn · 02-25-2022, 08:28 AM

Interesting video, thanks!

Tug Hill · 02-25-2022, 10:02 AM

The state hatchery in Rome , NY has raised the Horn Lake strain for years.

Glen · 02-25-2022, 12:03 PM

If there were only decent regulations and enforcement to protect them.

BobF · 02-25-2022, 01:24 PM

Thanks Bunch. This is great and hope it continues for years to come. Per Glen concern, down here (Westchester/Putnam/Dutchess) there are not enough DEP and DEC cops to handle all the poaching, so I can only image how tough it is to cover all up in the Park.

Pauly D. · 02-25-2022, 04:25 PM

Thanks for sharing. Very informative.

Bunchberry · 02-25-2022, 09:30 PM

The DEC youtube channel has a bunch of good little videos

adkfishing · 02-27-2022, 03:27 PM

It is great that they are doing this especially because without it brook trout fishing wouldn't exist as an option in so many Adirondack ponds.

That being said I always find it sad that the only way New York states freshwater fish can exist in so many places now is with stocking thanks to all of the damage we have done.

02-24-2022, 05:06 PM	#1
Bunchberry Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 91	Brook Trout: Preserving New York's State Fish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cWlEMImik New York's state freshwater fish is the brook trout. To help preserve heritage strains of brook trout in the Adirondacks, DEC Fisheries staff travel to remote ponds to conduct egg takes. Eggs and milt are taken from captured fish. The eggs are fertilized and taken to a fish hatchery to grow before being stocked in ponds throughout the Adirondacks.

02-25-2022, 08:28 AM	#3
geogymn Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2,036	Interesting video, thanks! __________________ "A culture is no better than its woods." W.H. Auden

02-25-2022, 12:03 PM	#5
Glen Check please Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Amityville, NY Posts: 1,190	If there were only decent regulations and enforcement to protect them. __________________ “Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. They smelled of moss in your hand. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.” ― Cormac McCarthy

02-25-2022, 04:25 PM	#7
Pauly D. Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Saratoga Springs, NY Posts: 406	Thanks for sharing. Very informative. __________________ Oh I'd rather go and journey where the diamond crest is flowing...

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02-24-2022, 09:07 PM	#2
Jwojcik1990 Member Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: Whitesboro Posts: 87	I always knew they stocked them this way, but really cool seeing it in action!

02-25-2022, 10:02 AM	#4
Tug Hill Member Join Date: Apr 2016 Posts: 299	The state hatchery in Rome , NY has raised the Horn Lake strain for years.

02-25-2022, 01:24 PM	#6
BobF Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Westchester Posts: 39	Thanks Bunch. This is great and hope it continues for years to come. Per Glen concern, down here (Westchester/Putnam/Dutchess) there are not enough DEP and DEC cops to handle all the poaching, so I can only image how tough it is to cover all up in the Park.

02-25-2022, 09:30 PM	#8
Bunchberry Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 91	The DEC youtube channel has a bunch of good little videos

02-27-2022, 03:27 PM	#9
adkfishing Member Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 31	It is great that they are doing this especially because without it brook trout fishing wouldn't exist as an option in so many Adirondack ponds. That being said I always find it sad that the only way New York states freshwater fish can exist in so many places now is with stocking thanks to all of the damage we have done.

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