MONTPELIER — Vermont’s “Trophy Trout” stocking program for 2024 includes nine river sections and 37 lakes and ponds receiving two-year-old trout, some over 18 inches long. “The Trophy Trout program ...

The Salisbury Fish Culture Station breeds brook trout, brown trout, rainbow trout and steelhead trout, which are stocked in rivers and lakes around Vermont. Photo courtesy of the Vermont Fish & ...

BENNINGTON — On a seasonably chilly spring morning, wispy tendrils of advection fog rose over the water-filled raceways and ponds at the Bennington Fish Culture Station – one of just five of the ...

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Lake trout populations in Lake Champlain are now self-sustaining, eliminating the need for stocking. This success follows a decades-long program to control sea lamprey, a parasitic fish harming lake ...

Craig Soupir has $20 million to spend, and wants to do it right. In fact, the money isn’t Soupir’s, and he alone isn’t responsible for ensuring the Department of Natural Resources builds the best fish ...