NOTICES
FISH AND BOAT COMMISSION
Proposed Changes to List of Class A Wild Trout Waters; October 2021
[51 Pa.B. 5322]
[Saturday, August 21, 2021]
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.
During recent surveys, Commission staff documented the following stream sections to have Class A wild trout populations. The Commission intends to consider adding these waters to its list of Class A Wild Trout Streams at its meeting on October 25 and 26, 2021.
| County | Stream | Section | Limits | Tributary to | Mouth
Lat/Lon | Brook Trout
(kg/ha)
| Brown
Trout
(kg/ha)
| Rainbow
Trout
(kg/ha)
| Length
(miles) | Survey
year |
|---|
| Centre | Cold Stream | 2 | State Game Lands boundary to inflow of Cold Stream Dam | Moshannon Creek | 40.909167
78.220833 | 0.24 | 59.94 | — | 1.27 | 2019 |
| Clinton | Laurelly Fork | 1 | Headwaters to Mouth | Young Womans Creek | 41.393055
77.686111 | 66.92 | — | — | 3.27 | 2020 |
| Clinton | Paddy Run | 1 | Headwaters to Paddy Run Road Bridge downstream of Austin Hollow Run | West Branch Susquehanna River | 41.329940
77.728537 | 100.06 | 62.87 | — | 1.72 | 2020 |
| Clinton | Paddy Run | 2 | Paddy Run Road Bridge downstream of Austin Hollow Run to Hensel Fork | West Branch Susquehanna River | 41.329940
77.728537 | 5.72 | 80.24 | — | 2.15 | 2020 |
| Clinton | Paddy Run | 3 | Hensel Fork to Mouth | West Branch Susquehanna River | 41.329940
77.728537 | 17.63 | 55.47 | — | 7.39 | 2020 |
| Clinton | Shintown Run | 1 | Headwaters to Mouth | West Branch Susquehanna River | 41.305833
77.800833 | 46.11 | — | — | 6.50 | 2020 |
| Potter | Baker Creek | 1 | Headwaters to Mouth | Allegheny River | 41.810001
78.001114 | 12.84 | 123.43 | — | 4.93 | 2020 |
| Potter | Middle Branch Genesee River | 2 | T-450 bridge near Gold to Mouth | Genesee River | 41.976111
77.856940 | — | 64.54 | — | 5.71 | 2019 |
| Potter | West Branch Genesee River | 3 | Rose Lake Run to Mouth | Genesee River | 41.992222
77.869167 | 3.50 | 97.76 | — | 4.90 | 2019 |
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. 21-1330. Filed for public inspection August 20, 2021, 9:00 a.m.]
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