The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 30, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 August 1977 — Page 9

Fish stocking misunderstood tool

Fisht stocking is the best known, yet most misunderstood feature of modern fish management. It is not, never has been and never will be a panacea for poor fishing says the division of fish and wildlife, Indiana Department of Natural Resources. * Stocking is one of several very useful fish management tools or techniques available. There are several different kinds of stockings, each named for its intended purpose. Initial stocking in new water can be any new lake or reservoir or an old one in which we have eliminated all fish through draining or chemical treatment. The initial stocking is the most important

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stocking a lake will ever get. It will determine fishing success for years to come, establishing the lake's reputation. The habitat present in a new or renovated lake determines what species of fish it will get. While bass and bluegill are pretty much standard in Indiana, we try to match other species to the habitat When a lake appears to have everything needed for the survival of a certain kind of fish that tias never been in it, that species a stocked as a new introduction Since new introductions are nade in the face <rf an existing ish population, higjh numbers of he new species must be used. The most controversial type of stocking is supplemental fish

stocking. Fisheries biologists themselves do not agree on the effectiveness and application of it. About the only things you can safely say about supplemental stockings is that they're expensive and results are unpredictable. The whole purpose of supplemental stocking is to beef up a fish population where reproduction is low. It works well when the only limiting factor on the population is too little natural reproduction. And, of course, those species which have the most specific spawning habitat requirements are those most Successfully carried by supplemental stockings. Walleyes and northern pike are good

examples. The whole supplemental stocking idea falls apart when spawning success is not the factor holding a population down. In many lakes we have a seeming abundance of bass fry produced. Yet, increased numbers of adults never result. Why? One or more mortality factors limit development of those populations. This can run the gamut from excessive predation on the young fish to stiff competition for food from other species. Maintenance stocking is a slightly different approach. Where supplemental are intended to augment low natural reproduction, maintenance stockings are made where no natural reproduction occurs. Populations of musky, walleye,

striped bass and northern pike are frequently established and carried this way. The practicality of maintenance stocking is limited to those species which can be literally mass produced at relatively little cost. Northern pike fingerlings can be inexpensively produced by simple pond culture. Walleyes are also inexpensive to produce in high numbers (literally millions) if broodstock is readily available. They’re hatched in a jar culture unit that can be put together for a few hundred dollars and are usually stocked as fry. Eventhough walleye fry survival is low, only a few have to survive at the stocking rates used (3,000 to 5,000 per acre). B Natural reproduction of musky

and striped bass is low to nonexistent in most areas. Populations of these species often must be maintained through hatchery programs. Put-and-take stocking is the most costly stocking we get into. It amounts to stocking a catchable size fish in front of the man with the rod and is usually confined to trout. The objective of any put-and-take program is to get the highest percentage return (catch) of the stocked fish that’s possible. For this reason, the fish are stocked just prior to opening day. Stocking will always be an integral part of any fish management program. And, used at the right time and place, it will continue to be a big hammer in our management tool box. <-

Wed., August 17,1977 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

It Happened In . . . Milford, Indiana Items Taken From The Files Os The Milford Mail

14 jft:ARS AGO, AUG. 22,1M3 MdLrd Democrats will caucus next Tuesday evening, Aug. 27, to nominate candidates for the three town board posts and for clerk-treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Bishop of r 2 Milford, will observe their 60th anniversary at an open house Sunday, Aug. 25, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the home of their son, Robert, whose home is located 2Vi miles west of Leesburg at the comer of road 700 N and 250 W or V 4 mile south of the Everett Bishop home. The Kosciusko county firemen’s association held a meeting at the Milford fire station at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15. About 35 firemen attended. Mr. and Mrs. James Walter and daughter, Tina, of Goshen, attended church services in New Salem on Sunday forenoon and were dinner guests o( Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Morehouse. 24 YEARS AGO. AUG. 20, 1953 An estimated 1,000 persons or more were present at the annual Apostolic Christian church meeting at Camp Mack Sunday afternoon and evening. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anderson of Olney, DI., were calling on friends in Milford yesterday. They were en route to Flint, Mich., to visit Mrs. Anderson’s sister. Workmen of the county highway department are busy widening the three-mile strip of highway from Syracuse to the Raymond Pinkerton comer two miles northeast of Milford. They are widening the road two feet on each side at the present time, preparatory to blacktopping the entire strip. A 2C Lloyd Coy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Coy is home on today leave. Since his last visit in Milford Lloyd has been in Korea, arriving there August 8,1952. He left Korea for Japan October 23 and was stationed at Tsuiki AFB on the Island of Kushu. He remained here until July 22,1953. He came back aboard the USNS Gen. E. D. Patrick which docked at San Francisco, August 10. Frbm there Lloyd went to Parks AFB. He was there 24 hours before coming home. After completing his 40-day leave here, Lloyd will go to Lockbourne AFB at Columbus, O. He is a jet engine mechanic. 30 YEARS AGO, AUG. 21, 1947 A cake contest, put on by the home economics committee, was the main feature of interest at the meeting of the Waubee<*Grange, last Thursday eveningjThirteen cakes were judgedny Mrs. Sherman Deaton of Syracuse. First prize awards went to Thelma Wilson, angel food; Ruth Miller, white layer; Charlotte Wise, dark layer cake. Two hundred members of the adult Sunday school classes of

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' <• the Apostolic Christian churches of Francesville, Leo, Bremen and Milford met at Waubee Lake Sunday at 2 p.m. The Milford baton twirlers, the Misses Louann Rassi, Barbara Moore, Betty Bray, Beverly Hartter and Patty Kaiser, took part in the preliminary program ;yto the Chicagoland Music Festival held at Rice Field, Elkhart last Wednesday. The girls wore their new uniforms and were unexcelled in appearance. 60 YEARS AGO, AUG. 23,1917 The fourth annual Bushong reunion will be held at the home of Mrs. Minervia Bushong, three miles east of Milford, on Sunday, August 26, 1917. Miss Harriet Devries, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Devries of North Manchester, formerly of Milford, has accepted a position in high school work as a teacher, 400 miles from home and 50 miles south of St. Louis. She begins her term September Ist and will teach Domestic Science, Music, Art and Penmanship. The fifth annual reunion of the William McDonald family will be held at the home of John C. Fisher, four miles west of Milford, on Thursday, August 30. Thistles: We never knew a bachelor to be afraid of, or mistreated his wife. Cited on five charges A Goshen man was booked on five charges last Friday night following his arrest by acting Milford marshal Richard Fehnel. Jerry D. Pollock, Goshen, was reportedly driving east on Emeline when he made a U-turn to avoid waiting for a train. As he did, he struck a car owned by Elicha Malagon, Milford, parked on the street. Pollock was arrested for public intoxication, driving under the influence, failure to have vehicle inspected, illegal consumption and leaving the scene of aiv accident. Damage to the Pollock car was $25, and S3OO to the Malagon auto. The kids can always tell when there’s company in the living room without going to look. That’s when they hear mom laughing at dad’s jokes.

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