NOTICES
FISH AND BOAT COMMISSION
Proposed Changes to List of Class A Wild Trout Waters; January 2020
[49 Pa.B. 7052]
[Saturday, November 23, 2019]The Fish and Boat Commission (Commission) is considering changes to its list of Class A Wild Trout Streams. Under 58 Pa. Code § 57.8a (relating to Class A wild trout streams), it is the Commission's policy to manage self-sustaining Class A wild trout populations as a renewable natural resource to conserve that resource and the angling it provides. Class A wild trout populations represent the best of this Commonwealth's naturally reproducing trout fisheries. With rare exceptions, the Commission manages these stream sections solely for the perpetuation of the wild trout fishery with no stocking.
Criteria developed for Class A Wild Trout fisheries are species specific. Wild Trout Biomass Class Criteria include provisions for:
(i) Wild Brook Trout Fisheries
(A) Total brook trout biomass of at least 30 kg/ha (26.7 lbs/acre).
(B) Total biomass of brook trout less than 15 cm (5.9 inches) in total length of at least 0.1 kg/ha (0.089 lbs/acre).
(C) Brook trout biomass must comprise at least 75% of the total trout biomass.
(ii) Wild Brown Trout Fisheries
(A) Total brown trout biomass of at least 40 kg/ha (35.6 lbs/acre).
(B) Total biomass of brown trout less than 15 cm (5.9 inches) in total length of at least 0.1 kg/ha (0.089 lbs/acre).
(C) Brown trout biomass must comprise at least 75% of the total trout biomass.
(iii) Mixed Wild Brook and Brown Trout Fisheries
(A) Combined brook and brown trout biomass of at least 40 kg/ha (35.6 lbs/acre).
(B) Total biomass of brook trout less than 15 cm (5.9 inches) in total length of at least 0.1 kg/ha (0.089 lbs/acre).
(C) Total biomass of brown trout less than 15 cm (5.9 inches) in total length of at least 0.1 kg/ha (0.089 lbs/acre).
(D) Brook trout biomass must comprise less than 75% of the total trout biomass.
(E) Brown trout biomass must comprise less than 75% of the total trout biomass.
(iv) Wild Rainbow Trout Fisheries
Total biomass of rainbow trout less than 15 cm (5.9 inches) in total length of at least 2.0 kg/ha (1.78 lbs/acre).
(v) Mixed Wild Brook and Rainbow Trout Fisheries
(A) Combined brook and rainbow trout biomass of at least 40 kg/ha (35.6 lbs/acre).
(B) Total biomass of brook trout less than 15 cm (5.9 inches) in total length of at least 0.1 kg/ha (0.089 lbs/acre).
(C) Total biomass of rainbow trout less than 15 cm (5.9 inches) in total length of at least 0.1 kg/ha (0.089 lbs/acre).
(D) Brook trout biomass shall comprise less than 75% of the total trout biomass.
(E) Rainbow trout biomass shall comprise less than 75% of the total trout biomass.
(vi) Mixed Wild Brown and Rainbow Trout Fisheries
(A) Combined brown and rainbow trout biomass of at least 40 kg/ha (35.6 lbs/acre).
(B) Total biomass of brown trout less than 15 cm (5.9 inches) in total length of at least 0.1 kg/ha (0.089 lbs/acre).
(C) Total biomass of rainbow trout less than 15 cm (5.9 inches) in total length of at least 0.1 kg/ha (0.089 lbs/acre).
(D) Brown trout biomass shall comprise less than 75% of the total trout biomass.
(E) Rainbow trout biomass shall comprise less than 75% of the total trout biomass.
At the next Commission meeting on January 27 and 28, 2020, the Commission will consider changes to its list of Class A Wild Trout Streams list. During recent surveys, Commission staff documented the following stream sections to have Class A wild trout populations. Specifically, the Commission will consider adding these waters to its Class A Wild Trout Streams list.
County Stream Section Limits Tributary to Mouth
Lat/LonBrook
Trout
(kg/ha)
Brown
Trout
(kg/ha)Rainbow
Trout
(kg/ha)Length
(miles)Survey
YearCameron/
ClintonLeft Branch Montour Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Montour Run 41.309084
78.01808957.23 — — 1.37 2019 Cameron/
ClintonRight Fork Beaverdam Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Beaverdam Run 41.404385
77.95136539.29 — — 3.49 2019 Centre Dicks Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Bald Eagle Creek 40.894167
77.889167— 94.28 — 5.88 2019 Centre Laurel Run 1 Headwaters to Whetstone Run Bald Eagle Creek 40.863333
77.93611111.49 30.12 — 2.51 2019 Centre Nittany Creek 2 Curtain Gap quarry discharge to I-80 east bound Bald Eagle Creek 40.974722
77.742500— 44.83 — 0.65 2019 Centre UNT to Galbraith Gap Run (RM 2.60) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Galbraith Gap Run 40.764187
77.73762352.37 3.35 — 1.19 2019 Centre UNT to Logan Branch (RM 3.88) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Logan Branch 40.870662
77.759553— 130.97 — 0.16 2018 Centre UNT to Spring Creek (RM 19.60) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Spring Creek 40.783197
77.798060— 40.41 — 0.95 2019 Centre Whetstone Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Laurel Run 40.885864
77.97591719.39 27.32 — 1.98 2019 Clearfield McCloskey Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Upper Three Runs 41.165684
78.07525758.06 — — 1.35 2019 Clearfield Shaggers Inn Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Medix Run 41.219166
78.38999939.31 — — 1.96 2019 Clearfield UNT to Gifford Run (RM 4.40) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Gifford Run 41.179383
78.28531353.18 — — 1.11 2019 Clearfield UNT to Medix Run (RM 7.37) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Medix Run 41.214544
78.37471133.64 — — 2.10 2019 Clinton Cherry Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Fishing Creek 40.988224
77.49547617.98 32.63 — 8.63 2019 Clinton Left Fork Beaverdam Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Beaverdam Run 41.404446
77.95166838.50 — — 1.67 2019 Elk Little Wolf Lick Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Wolf Lick Run 41.337558
78.45922916.89 55.78 — 3.29 2019 Franklin Yankees Gap Run 2 Spring source at RM 1.29 to Mouth Dennis Creek 39.980163
77.75851878.80 — — 1.29 2019 Lebanon UNT to Swatara Creek (RM 48.00) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Swatara Creek 40.499303
76.52707448.84 — — 1.28 2019 Lebanon UNT to Swatara Creek (RM 49.30) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Swatara Creek 40.503293
76.50876942.50 — — 2.00 2019 Lycoming Kaiser Hollow Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Loyalsock Creek 41.316715
76.910606— 46.09 — 3.34 2019 Lycoming/
TiogaMorris Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Slate Run 41.523333
77.52777831.24 26.49 — 2.80 2019 Monroe Dotters Creek 3 Mertz Road (T-442) Bridge to Mouth Middle Creek 40.907540
75.497263— 61.75 — 2.56 2019 Potter Cross Fork 1 Confluence of Wingerter and Bolich Runs to Short Run Kettle Creek 41.483055
77.82027418.80 25.96 — 0.94 2019 Potter Cross Fork 2 Short Run to Rhulo Hollow Kettle Creek 41.483055
77.82027419.14 31.71 — 3.04 2019 Potter Little Indian Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Little Kettle Creek 41.594167
77.70750040.52 5.82 — 2.79 2019 Potter Little Portage Creek 1 Headwaters to Mouth Freeman Run 41.603946
78.06555054.92 33.81 — 3.39 2019 Potter Nelson Hollow Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth West Branch Genesee River 41.950156
77.88444961.68 125.85 — 1.37 2019 Potter UNT to Phoenix Run (RM 2.69) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Phoenix Run 41.776090
77.61040035.87 — — 1.21 2019 Potter UNT to South Branch Oswayo Creek (RM 5.63) 1 Headwaters to Mouth South Branch Oswayo Creek 41.874090
77.9911704.10 40.81 — 2.19 2019 Schuylkill UNT to Lower Little Swatara Creek
(RM 0.46)1 Headwaters to Mouth Lower Little Swatara Creek 40.536110
76.38194350.51 — — 1.36 2019 Schuylkill UNT to Lower Little Swatara Creek
(RM 3.97)1 Headwaters to Mouth Lower Little Swatara Creek 40.543056
76.33139062.07 — — 2.16 2019 Snyder Swift Run 2 UNT to Swift Run (RM 6.78) to T-469 Bridge North Branch Middle Creek 40.773611
77.19861113.69 46.88 — 3.80 2018 Somerset Shafer Run 1 Headwaters to
400 m downstream Shafer Run Trout HatcheryLaurel Hill Creek 40.048927
79.19940241.23 — — 2.31 2018 Tioga Kettle Creek 1 Headwaters to Billings Branch West Branch Susquehanna River 41.300556
77.83888939.11 — — 2.80 2019 Union Sand Spring Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth White Deer Creek 41.059167
77.07500018.26 32.03 — 5.69 2019 Union UNT to Spruce Run (RM 8.25) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Spruce Run 41.024792
77.05658048.10 — — 1.46 2019 The Commission also will consider the following amendments to the list:
Current Sectioning Strategy
Proposed Sectioning Strategy
County Stream Section Limits Length
(miles)Mouth
Lat/LonCounty Stream Section Limits Length
(miles)Mouth
Lat/LonMonroe Dotters Creek 2 Monroe and Carbon County border to UNT below Jonas 1.71 40.907540
75.497263Monroe Jonas Creek 1 Headwaters to Mouth 2.60 40.951100
75.522230Monroe Dotters Creek 3 UNT below Jonas to Mertz Road Bridge (T-442) 2.53 40.907540
75.497263Monroe Dotters Creek 1 Headwaters to Mertz Road Bridge (T-442) 1.64 40.907540
75.497263* As currently listed, Dotters Creek, Section 02 and a portion of Section 03, were misidentified as Dotters Creek when the stream sections were added to the Class A Wild Trout Streams list in 1983 and 1992, respectively. Dotters Creek, Section 02, and the upstream portion of Section 03, were subsequently determined to be Jonas Creek, Section 01. The downstream portion of Dotters Creek, Section 03, is now identified as Dotters Creek, Section 01. These changes do not result in additions to the Class A Wild Trout Streams list and only serve to amend stream names once new information became available.
Persons with comments, objections or suggestions concerning the additions are invited to submit comments in writing to the Executive Director, Fish and Boat Commission, P.O. Box 67000, Harrisburg, PA 17106-7000, within 30 days after publication of this notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Comments also may be submitted electronically by completing the form at www.fishandboat.com/regcomments. If an acknowledgment of electronic comments is not received by the sender within 2 working days, the comments should be retransmitted to ensure receipt. Electronic comments submitted in any other manner will not be accepted.
TIMOTHY D. SCHAEFFER,
Executive Director
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 19-1752. Filed for public inspection November 22, 2019, 9:00 a.m.]
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