Fall trout stocking:

[AndyS]

All waters traditionally stocked with trout in the fall will be stocked this year. That’s the good news.

But the Division of Fish and Wildlife won’t be stocking 20,000 two-year-old 14-16-inch rainbows and brookies and three-year-old broodstock stocked in rivers like they did in fall of 2013.

This fall they’ll stock yearling rainbows 25,000 averaging nine inches and no broodstock in popular 16 rivers. South Jersey gets nine-inchers and 300 broodstock averaging 20-inch-plus in 14 lakes and ponds and the Maurice River in South Jersey.

Principal Fisheries Biologist Chris Smith reported Tuesday to the Fish and Game Council about the 2014 fall trout anticipated stocking program. The numbers will be finalized later in the month, and stocking starts Oct. 7 in the rivers and Oct. 14, South Jersey.