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NGPC reports stocking plans, trout survey results and regulation tweaks for South Central fisheries
Summary
Nebraska Game and Parks officials said the South Central District requested nearly 15 million fish for 2025, increased trout stocking size this spring, reported interim results of a trout angler survey and described targeted walleye and wiper stocking and regulation approaches including a statewide change to the wiper minimum-size rule.
Brad Ifert, South Central District manager for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, said the district’s 2025 stocking request approaches 15 million fish across 15 species and described the agency’s annual sampling and reporting practices.
Ifert said the district’s primary stocked species are walleye (including sauger in canal systems), channel catfish on smaller waters, hybrid striped bass in several reservoirs and introductions such as blue catfish into selected canals and reservoirs. He said smallmouth and yellow perch are also stocked in several interstate lakes and noted NGPC posts stocking lists and annual sampling summaries on outdoorNebraska.gov.
Colton Curtis, a district biologist, gave an…
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