Willi,
Now is your chance to get them to spend the money on improving habitat
instead of spending it on hatcheries.
Montana studies show that stocking hatchery trout will reduce the overall
number of stocked and non stocked trout that will live in the stream.
California Fish & Game is too dense to accept this, but perhaps Colorado DOW
will.
I would like to see an electric fence unit which ran on solar cells. It
should have a built in radio transmitter that would transmit an occasional
coded radio signal to show that the unit was operating ok, or was in trouble
(line went open, became grounded, had low batteries). This would alert
someone to come and fix it. The unit should be maintenance free and easily
replaced.
One man with a Jeep and pulling a trailer full of wire and metal fence
posts could easily set the posts, string the wire and install the units. Two
strands of barbed wire should be about right. Livestock should be kept
fifty feet from the stream. This would let the banks stabilize, improve
water quality, and provide good habitat for fish and small game.
Ernie

"Willi" wrote in message
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In Colorado, a positive aspect to the introduction of whirling disease
was the end of stocking catchables in streams and rivers. "All" the
hatcheries were infected with WD and they decided to halt stocking in
streams and rivers with natural reproduction.

Now that they have clean hatcheries again, they have started stocking
some streams and rivers, but the numbers are WAY down. Charlie W. and I
have talked about this and we both feeling that fish populations (and
the quality of fish) have increased when stocking halted. I hope our DOW
doesn't go back to their old ways.
Willi