I have a question about releasing fish into the wild. I live in Connecticut and every April the state stocks hundreds of thousands of trout into our waters. Some of the trout are fry while others are over 20 inches long. Now wouldn't that be considered releasing fish that came out of a tank? For a trout to get over 20 inches it needs to stay at the hatchery for over 2 to 3 years. I have had my pet bass that long and I would like to release him someday to the same lake where I caught him. Can someone please explain the difference between the state releasing fish into the wild and a individual releasing a fish into the wild to me please?
Releasing Fish Into the Wild
- Thread starter Bluegill
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So throwing trout into a a 5 acre lake with a depth max of 20 feet is ok for the ecosystem? So then if I kept a trout in my fish tank I could release it back into the wild?
There is a small lake that the state stocks near my house with a ton of trout and after the opening day weekend is over you won't catch a damn thing. No bass, pickerel, or even bluegill. Why are the scientists stocking a mudhole when they know that no trout will survive the summer months?
Bluegill;930847; said:
Money why else would they stock non-native sportfish...
As for the difference between a hobbyist releasing fish and the state releasing fish...Thats simple
They don't keep their fish with pet store fish, no exotic diseases. your bass probably eats feeders from a pet store or lives with something from a pet store. Plus, they work for the government and are allowed to do it. just keep it.
ok, didn't see the post above me, thier explaination is better.
ok, didn't see the post above me, thier explaination is better.
I feed my bass shiners and small suckers that I catch at the Farmington River and I feed my bluegills and perch small little baitfish that crusie the shallows in the Farmington. As for the state stocking trout what about the trout that they keep in the big ponds at the hatcheries which the release after they get to be state record size? In Connecticut there is a brown trout that is 18 pounds that lives in a hatchery and they are going to release it into East Twin lake. That thing does not eat just pellet food. So Polypterus if I kept my pet bass with 20 other same size bass in a concrete raceway and fed them pellet food and baitfish from the surronding lakes and rivers I could release them back into the wild like the state does with trout?
Do you have a pathologist that looks for disease in the fish in your tank? I'm pretty sure the state does.
it sounds to me like you want to release it and anything anyone says wont stop you. people have given you the answers you were looking for, but no one can make sure you dont release your fish.