{"id":167,"date":"2008-11-25T09:34:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2019-07-07T17:41:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T00:41:26","slug":"fish-restocking-ban-which-of-your-favorite-mountain-lakes-are-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/fish-restocking-ban-which-of-your-favorite-mountain-lakes-are-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Restocking Ban in Northern California Lakes: 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few days the California Department of Fish and Game has been required to stop stocking non-native fish in many lakes in Northern California, including a lot of those high mountain lakes in the Sierra Nevada, Trinity Alps, Trinity Divide, Russian Wilderness, and other places we all love to hike. The reason? To comply with a lawsuit filed by two environmental groups that want to protect threatened species.<\/p>\n

Here’s a snippet from a recent Record Searchlight<\/em> article about how one hiker-fisherman is affected:<\/p>\n

For more than 50 years, when 68-year-old Carl Furrer backpacked to the dozens of high mountain lakes that pool in valleys above the north state, his fishing pole doubled as a kitchen utensil.<\/p>\n

The Shingletown man says there are few things in life as satisfying as dining on a breakfast of brook and rainbow trout caught at first light.<\/p>\n

That’s why Furrer says he’s both saddened and alarmed at a deal made this week by the Department of Fish and Game to stop planting millions of hatchery-raised trout in many of the state’s mountain rivers and lakes he’s fished for most of his life.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to pretty much kill 90 percent of my fishing,” Furrer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

California Department of Fish and Game on Fish Stocking Ban<\/h2>\n

Here’s a chunk of a\u00a0Friday post from the California Department of Fish and Game web site:<\/p>\n

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Contact:
\nJordan Traverso, Office of Communications, (916) 654-9937<\/p>\n

SACRAMENTO – An order today signed by Sacramento Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette will allow the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to stock more waters than would have been allowed under his Nov. 6 tentative ruling. The order is a result of weeks of negotiation among DFG, and the Pacific Rivers Council and Center for Biological Diversity, along with their counsel Stanford Legal Clinic.<\/p>\n

\u201cDFG fought hard in the negotiations to save its fish stocking programs,\u201d said DFG Director Donald Koch. \u201cWe are pleased that the order allows us to continue stocking in a number of areas where the communities depend on fishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The order, with some exceptions, has a broad prohibition against DFG stocking \u201cnonnative\u201d fish in \u201cany California fresh water body\u201d where surveys have demonstrated the presence of 25 specified amphibian or fish species or where a survey for those species has not yet been done. The order does not address the stocking of native fish into native waters.<\/p>\n

The order lists exceptions to the prohibition regarding stocking nonnative fish, which include:<\/p>\n