Fish Stocking Reports

Fish Stocking Report Now Available With Daily Updates

The fish stocking report now features daily updates from hatchery staff. Instead of hearing when and where the hatcheries have stocked well after the season has ended, anglers now will be able to easily locate waters freshly stocked with catchable trout.

Waters are grouped by county, listed by town, and include the date of stocking as well as the species, quantity, and size of fish released.

- Todd Langevin, Superintendent of Hatcheries, Augusta

Current Year Stocking Report [PDF]

Please contact Joe Dembeck, Fisheries Management Supervisor, if you have questions/comments regarding the stocking proposals listed below. email - joe.dembeck@maine.gov or call - 287-5022.

The State has permanantly discontinued the stocking program on the following waters:


Major Stocking Program Changes
Water	Town	County	Species	Reason for Change
South River	Parsonsfield	York	BKT	Cancelled 1 of 2 stocking sites due to a border barricade and lack of vehicle access. The other site was last stocked in the spring of '09.
Hancock Brook	Hiram	Oxford	BKT	Cancelled due to property posting (no public access) in the spring of '09. This water was removed from future allocations.
Jaybird Pond	Hiram	Oxford	RBT	Cancelled due to posting of traditional public access site and not stocked in the spring of '09. This water will be removed from future stocking allocations.
Trout Pond	Stoneham	Oxford	BKT	Cancelled due to the development of a wild brook trout fishery. Supplemental stocking may be required in the future to maintain the population, particularly following drought years when recruitment may be low/nonexistent.
Kennebec River	Augusta	Kennebec	LLS	Cancelled LLS stocking as Kennebec River is included in ATS DPS.
Androscoggin River	Livermore	Franklin	BNT	Cancelled as IFW stocking for FERC requirements resulted in low use and negligible returns.
Halfmoon Pond	Prospect	Waldo	BKT	Cancelled further stocking due to loss of public access.
Iron Pond	Washington	Knox	BNT	Cancelled due to low use and low returns.
Houston Pond	T7 R9 NWP	Piscataquis	BKT	Cancelled after years of low returns and poor gillnetting results.

The State has initiated a new fish stocking program on the following waters:


Major Stocking Program Changes
Water	Town	County	Species	Reason for Change
Conservation School Pond	Bryant Pond	Oxford	BKT	New BKT stocking to support conservation school programs and HOFNOD; Director reported unscheduled fish stocked in 2009 were very successful.
Mud Greenwood Pond	Willimantic	Piscataquis	BKT	New program that underwent peer review and public hearing last winter that is scheduled for 2010 or earlier if unscheduled fish become available.
South Fork Icicle Brook Bermis Stream Goose Eye Brook Upper Mountain Brook	TWP C TWPD Riley TWP TWP D	Oxford	BKT	University of Maine - Orono research proposal that underwent peer review. The lower reaches of each of these four streams contain wild brook trout populations and UMO researchers will capture and transfer brook trout resident to each of the above streams and move them upstream over impassible barriers into barren reaches of the same stream, thus preserving the genetic integrity of each stream population. This work is proposed for the late summer/early fall of 2010. The intent of their project is to determine whether the addition of woody debris improves brook trout habitat, and to relocate wild brook trout to vacant habitat to evaluate 1) their impact of their introduction on the native macroinvertebrate biota of the streams and 2) their relative performance in habitats with and without coarse woody debris.
Perch (Mud) Pond	Old Town	Penobscot	BKT	New program that underwent peer review. Purpose is to create an ice fishing opportunity for brook trout in close proximity to population centers (Old Town, Orono, University of Maine, and Bangor).

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