wrote:

[snip of same old tired stuff]

Is it possible...is it possible that the brook trout would be thriving
if it weren't for the brown trout?

Then you see this...
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/a...plate=printart

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"The 'Kill has been managed exclusively for wild brook and brown trout
since the mid-1970s when the last hatchery truck paid a visit to the
banks of the storied river. Now our fisheries biologists are
recommending the river get a dose of rainbow trout -- 1,000 of them, to
be precise -- just to give those anglers who are bellyaching about the
poor fishing on the Battenkill something to hook and cook.

You can't make this stuff up."
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I agree.

The irony is absolutely sublime.

Stock the rainbows, but don't stop with triploids. Maybe they'll
establish a wild trout population and in 30 years nobody will give a
rip about the browns.

So because it's possible they made a mistake in stocking browns, you
think they should compound that mistake by stocking another non-native
species.

Talk about yer irony.


Chuck Vance