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Preliminary findings from a survey conducted in April 2000 of 452 Virginia brook trout streams indicate some recovery from the acidification levels found in a 1987 baseline survey. The results ...
ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — Trout stocking by the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) is being delayed on some streams around the commonwealth because of low water. DWR says stockings on ...
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ/DWR Release) - Biologists with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources have identified gill lice on rainbow trout in a stream in southwestern Virginia.
Stream Team co-director Hania Abboud, a senior, contacted Dawn Kirk, a U.S. Forest Service fisheries biologist, who suggested they assess two streams that had no trout — Narrow Passage Creek ...
ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — Trout stocking by the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) is being delayed on some streams around the commonwealth because of low water. DWR says stockings on ...
Virginia is stocking hundreds of trophy-sized fish in fee-fishing areas. The Roanoke Times reports that the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries added 400 brook, brown, and rainbow ...
One stream where it is possible to catch the Virginia Trout Slam, with a combination of both wild and stocked or holdover fish, is the South River in Waynesboro.
There are models that say brook trout could be extinct in the commonwealth by mid-century, according to Benzing. He said the impact of energy on coldwater streams is critical.
Officials will be stocking the state’s waters with 30,000 trout, 2,500 of which will be trophy-size rainbow trout during the weeks of Oct. 17 and Oct. 24, according to West Virginia Gov. Jim ...
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Dozens of streams and lakes have been freshly stocked with trout in West Virginia as Division of Natural Resources officials host a statewide contest for anglers ...
Students from James Madison High School release brook trout fingerlings into Catharpin Creek near Haymarket, Va. Teens from several schools are conducting water-quality studies in the area to ...