DNR Fish Stocking Results for 2014

The Department of Natural Resources says it put more than 22 million fish into Michigan’s waters this year. The DNR’s Fisheries Division stocked six different species during the fall, totaling more than 483,000 fish that weighed more than 8.8 tons. Brook trout, lake trout, rainbow trout, steelhead, Atlantic salmon, walleye and muskellunge were stocked at more than 120 sites throughout the state. Michigan has six state and three cooperative hatcheries that work together to produce the species, strain and size of fish needed by fisheries managers. In general, fish are reared in Michigan’s state fish hatcheries anywhere from one month to one and a half years before they are stocked. Most fish in Michigan are stocked in the spring.