OMNR Stocking

[Scott McKee]

Found it. Scroll down a few pages. There is a table of DEC and OMNR stocking in the Niagara.

kapuscinski-et-al-2013.pdf

[John Pensyl]

I've read through this before and it's exactly what I remembered when talking to them. I thought for sure stocking ended in 74. They were claiming the heaviest stocking was from 76 to 79 and specifically in lake erie not the Niagara. I'd love to actually find records to see if there is any truth to this. I'd really love to find stocking records for sugarloaf marina because I've heard many times that it was heavily stocked in the 70s.

[Stephen Glassic]

Seems like there would be records if either agency stocked them in 76 to 79. On page three of the PDF it specifically says "There are no records of muskellunge stocking bymanagement agencies after 1974". I would think that Kevin Kapuscinski thoroughly researched the data before coming to that conclusion.

[John Pensyl]

Steve those records are only for the Niagara river also. Nothing there listed for lake erie at all.

[John Pensyl]

With as much stocking as was being done at the time in Ontario I almost find it hard to believe they werent stocking the lake or that they never did. They were dumping thousands of fish into the upper st. Lawrence and everywhere else they could find a place for them as well. The lists of fish species and places they were stocked was crazy during those years. Even here in NYS it's almost impossible to find complete records. Hell try and find complete data on how many fish private clubs in PA are dumping into lake erie today.