SALMON AND TROUT STOCKING
OPPORTUNITIES WITH THAMES VALLEY TU

Stocking dates are shown in the box below along with their location in either the southern or northern portion of our chapters waters. Contact the appropriate coordinator shown here for more information if you would like to participate.

Contact:

Yantic & Shetucket - John Pallof at 860-442-1658; e-mail: jpallof
Eight Mile River John Sascot at 860-917-8172; e-mail: jjascot
Moosup River Gene Cyr at 860-376-3350; e-mail: gcyr
Little River Morgan McGinley at 860-447-2224; e-mail: mmcginley
Northern waters- Charley McCaughtry at 860-429-1016; e-mail: cmccaughtry

Background image courtesy of "www.fisheyeguyphotography.com"

Recently there has been some confusion regarding Thames Valley's trout stocking assistance to Connecticut DEEP and Trout Unlimited's Trout Stocking Resolution. After much work and research I can assure you that there are no problems with Thames Valley's trout stocking assistance program and Trout Unlimited's Stocking Resolution. Thames Valley may continue as it has in the past assisting CT DEEP.

This resolve does not solve the Chapter's need for a stocking coordinator. For stocking assistance to continue Thames Valley needs to fill the stocking coordinator position. This is a Thames Valley Board of Directors position which oversees all aspects of stocking. We need someone to step up to the plate now. To do so, contact Hendrik or Charley McCaughtry.

Charley McCaughtry, Trout Unlimited Connecticut State Council at Large member and TVTU Board member.

Hendrik Verkade IV, TVTU President

Trout Unlimited supports hatchery production and stocking of trout and salmon only as part of an integrated program that first seeks to correct problems with habitat, water flow, and harvest.

Trout Unlimited opposes stocking in waters where healthy, self-sustaining populations of trout exist.

Something Fishy Going On

Rich Ives of Lebanon, a volunteer with the Thames Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited, dumps a net full of trout into his live cart, as fellow club members Steve Bernier, left, and Al Fehr prepare to walk their carts down the west branch of the Eightmile River in East Haddam on Friday. Trout Unlimited volunteers, with the help of workers from the state Department of Environmental Protection and students from Hale-Ray High School in East Haddam, stocked the Eightmile River watershed with about 2,500 trout from the Quinebaug Valley Fish Hatchery. Fishing season in Connecticut opens April 15.

Published in The Day on 3/18/2006

SALMON AND TROUT STOCKING OPPORTUNITIES WITH THAMES VALLEY TU

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SALMON AND TROUT STOCKING
OPPORTUNITIES WITH THAMES VALLEY TU