To the editor:
As a professional fishing guide, chair of the New Hampshire Chapter of Native Fish Coalition, and longtime resident of the Mount Washington Valley, I would like to respond to Steve Angers’ recent column on brook trout conservation, “North Country Angling: Protecting our state fish.”
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