{"id":173133,"date":"2016-06-27T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpms.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/30000-walleye-fingerlings-hatched-in-ogdensburg\/"},"modified":"2016-06-27T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T12:43:10","slug":"30000-walleye-fingerlings-hatched-in-ogdensburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/30000-walleye-fingerlings-hatched-in-ogdensburg\/","title":{"rendered":"30,000 walleye fingerlings hatched in Ogdensburg stocked in St. Lawrence River"},"content":{"rendered":"

30,000 walleye fingerlings hatched in Ogdensburg stocked in St. Lawrence River<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s good for tourism \u2026 it\u2019s good that people take part,\u201d Association President Mike Gagner said. \u201cIn three to five years, those fish will be laying their own eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said eggs hatched in Ogdensburg and the Walleye Association takes care of them until they are ready for the river.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe St. Lawrence River valley Sportsman\u2019s Club has hatched out the eggs the last two years and then we raise them,\u201d Gagner said. \u201cOnce they\u2019re born, we go up and get the fry and transfer them to our ponds.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said they have two ponds of one million gallons each in Waddington to raise the fry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fry went into the ponds the 28th of April. We grow zoe plankton and that\u2019s what they feed off,\u201d Gagner said. \u201cWhen they become ¾ an inch they\u2019re sent for testing \u2026 in Maine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey test the fish for seven different diseases. If the fish are clean, they give us permission to stock those fish. As soon as they give permission, we stock. After a while the plankton isn\u2019t enough for them \u2026 and they start eating their siblings.<\/p>\n

He expects 40 percent, or about 12,000 of the fry, will survive to adulthood. It will take 18 months to two years for the fish grow to the limit where anglers can keep them in New York, which is 18 inches.<\/p>\n

He says the association believes walleye stocking is an important ecological task, especially with the invasive species problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe round gobi is a problem as far as eggs,\u201d Gagner said. \u201cThey\u2019re carpeting the St. Lawrence River and that\u2019s what they do – they suck eggs. They\u2019re more difficult on bass. One out of every seven years is a good year for a natural (walleye) reproduction.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also says the stocking is good for tourism, putting more fish in the river for tourists to catch.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good from every angle you look at it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

30,000 walleye fingerlings hatched in Ogdensburg stocked in St. Lawrence River \u201cIt\u2019s good for tourism \u2026 it\u2019s good that people take part,\u201d Association President Mike Gagner said. \u201cIn three to five years, those fish will be laying their own eggs.\u201d He said eggs hatched in Ogdensburg and the Walleye Association takes care of them until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[699,44,697],"class_list":["post-173133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-outdoorsfirst","tag-walleye","tag-walleyefirst","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}