{"id":35421,"date":"2021-12-13T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=35421"},"modified":"2021-12-13T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T16:38:03","slug":"maryland-announces-winter-and-spring-trout-stocking-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/12\/13\/maryland-announces-winter-and-spring-trout-stocking-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Announces Winter and Spring Trout Stocking for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Preseason Stocking Begins; Traditional Trout Opener is March 26<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7834\/46302804804_4e55bf15f1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of man stocking a creek with trout\" width=\"375\" height=\"211\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Stephen Badger, Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced plans to stock 300,000 trout in Maryland waters. Preseason trout stocking begins this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The annual stocking will be completed in three bursts, preseason from now through February and spring stocking March 14 \u201325 and April 18 \u2013 29. Updates will be provided for all open locations once stocking is complete.\u00a0 <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All stocked locations that fall under a closure period will be announced prior to opening day on March 26, 2022. For updates, please visit the DNR <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/trout\/stocking.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/pages\/email.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign up<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to get daily stocking notifications via email. Anglers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> may also call\u00a0800-688-3467\u00a0and press option #1 to get a recorded weekly update when stocking is in process\u00a0(usually updated on Fridays)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As COVID continues, the department encourages anglers to practice social distancing while enjoying Maryland\u2019s recreational fishing opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trout anglers are reminded that r<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/regulations\/changes.aspx#brookie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">egulations for brook trout<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are now in effect requiring catch-and-release in all put-and-take trout areas and all waters east of Interstate 81. Anglers should take time to properly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/Fish-Facts.aspx?fishname=Brook%20Trout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">identify brook trout<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2014 which are not stocked by the department \u2014 when fishing in catch-and-release waters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preseason Stocking Begins; Traditional Trout Opener is March 26 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced plans to stock 300,000 trout in Maryland waters. Preseason trout stocking begins this week.\u00a0 The annual stocking will be completed in three bursts, preseason from now through February and spring stocking March 14 \u201325 and April 18 \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/12\/13\/maryland-announces-winter-and-spring-trout-stocking-for-2022\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,11],"tags":[4712,5044,3114,4375],"class_list":["post-35421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-brook-trout","tag-fishing","tag-trout","tag-trout-stocking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35429,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35421\/revisions\/35429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}