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you want to buy some Kevin? I got lots!LOL.

What size are the evil eye's Casey? What color backs?

You're always sea sick !!

If you believe them! It's the birds that need attention ! But their protected and god only knows they help the NY economies so greatly.

Per the Biologists this will be one if not the best ever year for natural reproduction in the salmon river. Don't know about previous years.

Back to the actual subject of this post! http://www.syracuse.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2015/11/dec_hatchery_fall_salmon_egg_collection_on_target_video_on_target_video.html?ath=e259648e0f2b39ad6ef9d04685caebfe#cmpid=nsltr_strycardleftheadline_single

They should add pictures of motors and compartment. That's what I would want to see if considering a salt water boat !!!!

Agreed! Gill-T

Wow ! Set that up if you have time ! Rich S.

All can point fingers and banter back and forth forever! Point is this meeting was a good step forward. Hopefully there are improvements considered in the future. We all should attend the state of the lake meetings that will be held early in 2016 at 3 locations along the south shore. Maybe more information (not speculation ) can be presented then!

That was brought up too Rick before they gave the response you quoted!

Actually that was brought up at the meeting and DEC response was way too many fish to stock off boats. Not sure what they could do with pens if empty of salmon already?

BROWN TROUT Brown trout are an important part of the lake fishery and also contribute to the fall tributary fishery. Browns are a featured species early in the spring as they congregate in the relatively warm, near-shore waters off of river mouths providing opportunity for shore and boat fishing. As the lake warms, browns move away from shore and continue to provide fishing for anglers willing to fish near the bottom where it intersects the thermocline. This fishery is often passed over by anglers seeking salmon further off-shore. As is the case with lake trout, salmon and steelhead, brown trout are capable of getting very large in Lake Ontario. The current state record (33 lbs. 2 oz.) was caught in Mexico Bay in 1997. Fish in the weighing high-teens and 20+ lbs. category are not uncommon. The brown trout stocked in Lake Ontario are domestic strain fish originating from our Rome Hatchery. The eggs are taken from captive broodstock and the fish are raised at various hatcheries throughout the state including the Salmon River Hatchery. The fish are stocked as yearlings in Lake Ontario around the end of May. Concerns over predation by double-crested cormorants on recently stocked brown trout led to stocking the fish off-shore with a landing-craft vessel (barge) in the eastern half of the lake starting in 1996. Paired stockings have been done annually at Oswego and Selkirk with half of the fish stocked from shore and the other half from the barge. The two groups of fish have different fin clips which allows us to evaluate the success of the barge stocking through returns of marked fish from the Lake Ontario Fishing Boat Census and other sources. Preliminary observations suggest at least a 4 to 1 advantage for barge stocked fish. We think that the main advantage for the barge stocking may be avoiding predation by other fish. By waiting until late May to stock the fish, cormorants are not very abundant at these sites. Most of the cormorants are involved in nesting activity the eastern basin. From fish Salmon River.com site.Written by Dan Bishop. This says we may have lost a lot this year! http://www.fishsalmonriver.com/Lake-Ontario-Trout-And-Salmon

They said their stocking schedule is so set that they can't make changes! I agree it's a waste of resources to let the birds eat the browns.

Problem is the barge they use is based in Cape Vincent and has to travel to stocking sites! You would think they would be able to adjust schedule but they said not the case at the meeting!

Yes 2015 Mike. Hopefully they will have good weather in 2016 to allow use of the barge for the brown stocking.