DPI - Anglers hook more rainbow, brown trout due to restocking

9:04 AM Wed 22 Dec 2010 GMT

'Victoria the Place to Be logo' Department of Primary Industries VIC

More than 187,000 trout have been stocked into formerly drought-affected lakes and reservoirs across Victoria, thanks in part to $231,000 from fishing licence revenue. Ballarat?s Lake Wendouree received the majority of 90,000 rainbow trout fry stocked in November while another 75,000 brown trout fry will be released into waterways around the state this month. Peter Walsh, Minister for Agriculture and Food Security, and responsible for fisheries, said a large number of small trout had been sourced at short notice from the Department of Primary Industries? own hatchery at Snobs Creek and other private trout hatcheries in northeast Victoria. 'We have ...

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