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Eastern Sierra: Trout season hindered by environmental lawsuit

Posted by: Maven on March 26, 2010 at 6:44 am

Upper Owens River #2 07-2008From Sierra Wave:

“At Fish and Game headquarters in Sacramento, hurried meetings and near panic over environmental issuses. Department of Fish and Game officials say that California will have trout stocking but not everywhere. The bottom line issue – do planted trout eat the same insects required by birds and other species?

With the start of trout season just a month away, this kind of news did not rest well with the Eastern Sierra. In fact, the news started to trickle out as individuals requested trout stocking permits. Tim Alpers, founder of the famous Alpers trout, said that it was his understanding that there was a restriction on trout stocking and on stocking permits for people like him.

No one from Fish and Game had returned Alpers’ phone calls. Thursday we spoke with Fish and Game information man, Harry Morse in Sacramento. He said that he and Curtis Milliron were working on a news release on trout stocking. He would say only that “there will be trout stocking.”

He declined to say anything about Eastern Sierra waters. … “

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March 26, 2010 · Filed Under Eastern Sierra

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