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Originally Posted by shep dog
Unfortunately, the $$$ support of stocked Put and Take fisheries may eventually hurt wild trout populations in the long run: Every dollar spent on stocked trout is one less dollar spent protecting wild trout.
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On the other hand if we never spent money stocking trout there would be no trout where most people nowadays fish for them. All the pressure would be on wild trout only and there would be few or none left as there were few native wild trout or places to fish them in Alberta to begin with. Stocking trout puts trout in tons of places where people can fish for them taking pressure away from the few natural wild stocks we have left.