North Country Angling - trout

Big wild brook trout have reacted favorably to not being stocked over. (STEVE ANGERS PHOTO)

Trout anglers across the Granite State took a deep breath at the beginning of the year as 2025 was the start of the fish hatchery modernization program. The plan included reducing fish at one hatchery to meet EPA effluent guidelines and the total demolition of another fish hatchery, where the new super hatchery would be built.

There would be 50 percent fewer trout to be placed into New Hampshire waters — the process of deciding what waters would get what trout was shrouded in secrecy. There was little to no public input. It was a mystery as to what your favorite trout water would receive.

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