Raritan river 3/9/19:

[Mark B.]

T.U. is correct.

The below is from NJDF&W's Coldwater Fisheries Management Plan:


The DFW’s stocking programs are guided by two basic management strategies, “Put-and Take” and “Put-Grow-and Take,” which are intended to maximize the benefits of stocked trout to the angler.

Put-and-Take Management Strategy: Catchable-size rainbow trout are stocked for immediate harvest to provide a short-term, seasonal fishery. Survival of stocked trout through the summer period is not expected (or poor) because suitable summer trout habitat (temperature < 21°C and dissolved oxygen > 4 mg/L) is absent, marginal, or sporadic. The trout-stocked waters managed under this stocking strategy include park ponds, shallow lakes, and warmwater streams. These waters are stocked in the spring and may be stocked again under the fall or winter program.

Put-Grow-Take Management Strategy: rainbow trout are stocked for immediate and/or delayed harvest to provide a long-term, year-round fishery. Suitable habitat is consistently available to sustain trout throughout the year such that survival and growth of unharvested, stocked trout over more than one growing season is expected. Trout-stocked waters managed under this stocking strategy, that are stocked with catchable trout, include coldwater streams and deep lakes that are capable of supporting trout year round, where wild trout populations are limited or absent. These waters are stocked in the spring and may be stocked again in the fall or winter.

[AndyS]

Thank you, I have never heard of that nor seen it in writing.
Where does the NO KILL KLG fall under this, where it is no kill and they just keep adding fish ?

[Drossi]

Originally Posted by AndyS

Thank you, I have never heard of that nor seen it in writing.
Where does the NO KILL KLG fall under this, where it is no kill and they just keep adding fish ?

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You are like a broken record.

[Mark B.]

Here is the 2005 document:

https://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/pdf/cwfmp/cwfmp-full.pdf


It is currently being rewritten / updated for 2019

[AndyS]

Dollars to donuts, why does the Rahway get close to 12,000 trout while the Raritan river gets around 3,000- both warm water fisheries.

[Mark B.]

Originally Posted by AndyS

Dollars to donuts, why does the Rahway get close to 12,000 trout while the Raritan river gets around 3,000- both warm water fisheries.

You must read "Allocation Methodology for Cultured Trout" on page 119 of the above referenced document.