jmccall,


Was your TU chapter stocking through the TU "Trout in the Classroom" program or as a chapter stand alone activity? I'd certainly be asking TU National for an explanation of why you've been ordered to cease stocking. Sounds like someone complained about your activities. Last year we were ordered to cease our "Trout in the Classroom" stocking in a small stream in a National park area where we had been able to do it previously, with their permission. Rumor had it that it had to something to do with a total ban on stocking anything because of all the snakes released in the Florida area or something like that. Whatever the reason I'm sure that the "invasion" of 200 fingerling brook trout a year raised in a classroom would upset the environmental integrity of an otherwise devoid of fish stream up in the mountains.