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In this case, I agree 100%. LMB can live in any decent freshwater habitat.. Native, naturally reproducing populations of Brook Trout, and Landlocked Atlantics are rare and very special and should be protected.. If the Brookie and LL population was maintained through stocking, I would respond with a heartfelt "meh". Here in NY we have a finger lake called Skaneateles Lake.. It has stocked LL, stocked Rainbows, Browns and smallish native Lake Trout.. Within the past few years someone introduced Walleyes, and they have taken off.. They are reproducing naturally and growing large and numerous.. Locals are furious and want the Walleyes dead. Makes NO sense as we have Salmonid fisheries, in all the other Finger Lakes, and very few Walleyes in any of them.. The NY DEC has set a no closed season, no creel limit and only 12 inch size limit on Walleyes in this lake because a few locals only want to deep troll for "silvers" as Rainbows, Browns and LL are called here.. Thats all anyone here does.. Trolls with downriggers for Trout.. They hate Walleyes with a passion and want the eradicated.. Makes NO sense to me.. In my mind, the Walleyes thrive there on thier own once they were put in.. However without yearly stocking of 10's of thousands of yearlings, the "silvers" that are so beloved would be gone from the lake in only a few short years.. I guess it depends on your perspective.. In the case of the lake in Maine, I hope the Brookies and Landlocks win.. In Skaneateles, I hope the Walleyes win... bob