Lac des Roches & Birch Lake Fish Stocking Record

Lac des Roches, Little Lac des Roches and Birch Lakes are stocked with various Rainbow Trout species each spring, totaling approximately 115,000 yearlings. These fish will be legal catch size and good eating in a year. We have a summary of the detailed stocking records beginning 2007.

2007 (actual)

Little Lac des Roches:

June 6Blackwater Rainbow Trout2Nyearlings4,000
June 21Blackwater Rainbow TroutAF3Nyearlings2,920
June 22Blackwater Rainbow Trout3Nyearlings2,920

Big Lac des Roches:

May 6Blackwater Rainbow Trout2Nyearlings7,000
June 6Blackwater Rainbow Trout2Nyearlings10,000
June 6Pennask Rainbow TroutAF3Nyearlings15,000
June 21Blackwater Rainbow Trout3Nyearlings23,950
June 25Pennask Rainbow Trout2Nyearlings19,087
June 26Pennask Rainbow Trout2Nyearlings19,500
June 28Pennask Rainbow TroutAF3Nyearlings5,342

Birch Lake:

May 16Blackwater Rainbow Trout3Nyearlings937
May 16Blackwater Rainbow Trout2Nyearlings4,124

2008 (planned)

Lac des Roches:

SpringBlackwater Rainbow Trout3Nyearlings30,000
SpringBlackwater Rainbow Trout2Nyearlings35,000
SpringPennask Rainbow TroutAF3Nyearlings15,000
SpringUnspecified Rainbow Trout2Nyearlings20,000

Birch Lake:

SpringBlackwater Rainbow Trout3Nyearlings5,000
SpringBlackwater Rainbow Trout2Nyearlings5,000

Definitions

2NNormal unaltered trout
3NSex organs removed in both males and females
AF3NSex organs removed in only females