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Fish & Boat Commission Adds 99 Streams To Wild Trout List
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Fish and Boat Commission this week added 99 new waters to the state’s list of wild trout streams, raising the total number of documented waterways which support naturally reproducing populations of trout to nearly 3,650.
The board voted to add the streams during a special Commission meeting. It also removed 16 waters from the list and adjusted the limits on eight others.
The changes resulted from recent stream surveys undertaken as part of the PFBC’s Unassessed Waters Initiative, a collaborative effort among the agency, local colleges and universities and conservation groups to survey the Commonwealth’s nearly 45,000 remaining unassessed waterways.
Surveying unassessed waters and documenting wild trout populations are consistent with the Commission’s five-year Strategic Plan, Strategic Plan for Management of Trout Fisheries in Pennsylvania and the agency’s Resource First philosophy.
The wild trout stream designation has regulatory significance because wetlands that are located in or along the floodplain of the reach of a wild trout stream are considered “exceptional value” by the Department of Environmental Protection and are entitled to the highest level of protection by DEP.
The changes will go into effect immediately upon the publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
The list of streams added is available online. The current version of the wild trout streams list was last revised in April 2010 is also available online.
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5/30/2011 |
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