[anthrax2244]

I believe the trout stocking program is fairly good as is. there is so much fishing pressure in "bad" places (seely's pond, speedwell lake, verona park pond etc) they probably dont have many fish surviving into the warm temps anyways. On one hand I agree with Andy, that in a perfect world, trout shouldnt be put in these types of places. However, the Pequest hatchery produces almost 600,000 trout annually, At least half of which go to places where the trout cannot survive due to high temperature/low dissolved Oxygen. If the state instead stocked those fish into the "good rivers" (i.e. pequest, musky, sbr, pohatcong creek, big flatbrook) I think they would far exceed the carrying capacity of these rivers and the fish would starve and die anyways. (Look at RVR) I've fished the sbr alot over the past 15 years and few if any fish hold over below the gorge (water temp/food). The pequest is probably the most fertile/food rich/coldest stream in the state and may be able to hold 2x the fish it gets, but thats about it. SO, I think the program as is, puts enough fish in the places that can hold them. Im fine with the limits.