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Stocking

Stocking of Walleye in the Lake Champlain Basin is done by both the Lake Champlain Walleye Association and Vermont Fish & Wildlife. LCWA stocks all the fish from their ponds and helps with the stocking of walleye from the state. Fish are stocked directly back to the rivers that their eggs come from.

It should be noted that all fish taken for collection of eggs have been put back to the waters that they were taken from. The process is a tedious one and on occasion a fish has died. It has been minimal. Policy Change - Because of the threat of VHS to Lake Champlain all fish taken for eggs are now being dispatched and tested for VHS. This is to insure that VHS isn't propagated thru eggs.

2008 Stocking Plans

Egg collection this year as of this writing is planned for the Poultney River. The current target for eggs is three million. We will keep you abreast of when that is happening and if any changes in plans come along.

Fingerlings in Marking Solution Ready to be Stocked

2007 Stocking Results

EGG COLLECTION             

DATE BROOD SOURCE # EGGS COLLECTED # PAIRS
4-24 Missisquoi R. 1,223,940 8  
4-25  Missisquoi R. 1,871,800 12
4-26 Missisquoi R.     763,120  6
4-27 Missisquoi R. 1,516,640 9

Eggs Incubated at Bald Hill FCS: Missisquoi R. strain   4,775,500

Eggs Incubated at Ed Weed FCS: Missisquoi R. strain    600,000

Total Number of Eggs Collected: 5,375,500

600,000 eggs were incubated at the Ed Weed Fish Culture Station as part of an evaluation of the effects of iodine disinfection on egg survival.   These eggs were a subset of the 4/24 egg collection.  This group of eggs had 100% mortality due primarily to a fungal infection during incubation. 

FRY STOCKING (public waters and BHFCS advanced fry system)

DATE  STRAIN LOCATION NUMBER MARK
5/18   Missisquoi R. Chapman Bay 416,000  FO
5/21 Missisquoi R BH Recirc.     390,000 FO
5/22 Missisquoi R. off Sandy Pt.    503,000 FO
5/27 Missisquoi R Lapans Bay/Woods Is 1,604,000  FO

Final Fry Stocking Totals to Public Waters:  Missisquoi R. strain  2,523,000

LCWA stocked between 900,000 - 1,000,000 fry to South Bay from the LCWA portable Hatchery in Whitehall. These fish were not marked.

Advanced Fry Stocking (8-10 days old, fed brine shrimp in recirculation system)

DATE

STRAIN

LOCATION 

NUMBER

MARK
5/26 Missisquoi R. BHFCSPond 1 60,000 FO
5/26      Missisquoi R. BHFCS Pond 2  50,000     FO
5/26  Missisquoi R. BHFCS Pond 3        40,000   FO
5/27  Missisquoi R. Samson Pond 2(St. A)    50,000  FO
5/27*   Missisquoi R.    Butler’s Island   40,000  FO
5/28   Missisquoi R. Samson Pond 1(St. A)  40,000   FO
5/28 Missisquoi R. Chittenden Reservoir  50,000    FO
5/28   Missisquoi R. Perkin’s Pond(Verg.)  20,000      FO 

*These fish were to be stocked in Samson Pond 1, but the dissolved oxygen levels were too low.  Fish were stocked into L. Champlain along Butler’s Island.

Final Advanced Fry Stocking Totals: Missisquoi R. strain  350,000

Fingerling Stocking

DATE  STRAIN LOCATION NUMBER  MARK  POND
6/25      Missisquoi R.     Lapans Bay, Woods Is. 23,600  FO+FNG Samson 1
6/26     Missisquoi R. Butler + Knight Is. 20,700 FO+FNG Samson 2
6/27 Missisquoi R.  Maquam Bay 3,400 FO+FNG Perkins
6/29 Missisquoi R. Sandy Pt. Hatchery  
through Campbell’s Bay		 45,800 FO+FNG   BHFCS 2
6/29 Missisquoi R. western outflow Miss. R.   35,700  FO+FNG BHFCS 3
7/01  Missisquoi R.  lower Miss.R. Shad Is.-Lk 42,300 FO+FNG  
7/01  Missisquoi R Chittenden Reservoir 15,000 FO+FNG BHFCS 1

                        Final Fingerling Stocking Totals:  Missisquoi R. strain   186,500   
       

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