Lake trout populations in Lake Champlain are now self-sustaining, eliminating the need for stocking. This success follows a decades-long program to control sea lamprey, a parasitic fish harming ...

WORCESTER — With an enthusiastic crew of schoolchildren helping out, doing their best to get a handle on squirming fish, state wildlife workers added 1,500 rainbow and brown trout to Lake ...

while golden rainbow trout are a unique hybrid species. Brook trout are the state fish and have a distinctive dark coloration with red spots and bluish halos. Lake trout are the largest species of ...

After decades of work, wild lake trout have been restored in Lake Champlain and there's no longer a need to stock the lake with hatchery-reared fish, the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife ...

LAKE CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The lake trout population has been restored in Lake Champlain, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) announced on Tuesday.

The long-running effort to restore lake trout to Lake Champlain reached a momentous milestone last week as officials from New York, Vermont and the federal government agreed to suspend the stocking of ...

Rainbow trout are the most common type of stocked trout, while golden rainbow trout are a unique hybrid species. Brook trout are the state fish and have a distinctive dark coloration with red spots ...

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