PA Steelhead Natural Reproduction

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Not trying to be a troll here but Lake Erie and Ontario 2 different lakes. Also where did you hear NY or you say Ontario doesn’t have a stocking program. It’s actually much better than PA’s in some situations. In both states there is natural reproduction going on but the percentage is very low. If these invasive species of trout was not stocked then they would not be there in numbers.

No, Just Lake Erie I was writing about.
No the province of Ontario does not stock LE with Steelhead.
BTW Ontario is not a state actually it is part of another country, Canada.

 

[CRB]

Cattaraugus Creek is one of them.

 

[dano]

Publicly available.

 

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NY-DEC estimates that up to 25% of the steelhead fishery in Cattaraugus Creek are wild fish.

https://extapps.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/cattcreeksteelhead.pdf

That's been updated through further data. The 2015 Spring/Fall Adult Study results for Catt was made up of
57% Pa Hatchery, 17% Catt Wild, 10% NY Hatchery, 8% Ohio and 8%Michigan Hatchery.
Chautauqua Wild were 11% of the fish collected in Chautauqua Cr.