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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 20-269

NOTICES

FISH AND BOAT COMMISSION

Proposed Changes to List of Class A Wild Trout Waters; April 2020

[50 Pa.B. 1199]
[Saturday, February 22, 2020]

 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 April 27 and 28, 2020.

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
Berks UNT to Rock Run (RM 4.96) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Rock Run 40.205555
75.958336
40.26 1.05 2019
Cameron Bucher Hollow Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Salt Run 41.545349
78.173115
54.64 4.32 1.75 2019
Cameron Finley Run 2 3.4 kilometers upstream of Mouth to Mouth Sterling Run 41.425000
78.232500
30.36 11.36 2.11 2019
Cameron Miller Hollow Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Portable Run 41.433121
78.236015
100.48 0.70 2019
Cameron Portable Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Sterling Run 41.425278
78.232498
36.71 3.04 5.24 2019
Cameron Reed Hollow Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Portable Run 41.431599
78.236481
40.91 0.99 2019
Cameron Salt Run 2 Outflow of Salt Run Reservoir to Mouth Sinnemahoning Portage Creek 41.522778
78.216111
18.79 29.09 1.96 2019
Cameron Snodgrass Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Tannery Hollow Run 41.414741 78.239660
111.77 2.49 2019
Cameron Sterling Run 1 Confluence of Finley Run and Portable Run to Mouth Driftwood Branch Sinnemahoning Creek 41.413056
78.197778
17.58 32.95 2.30 2019
Cameron Wheatfield Hollow Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Salt Run 41.537261
78.191986
61.16 0.68 0.60 2019
Cameron/Elk Big Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth West Creek 41.478226
78.366814
48.57 4.89 2019
Cameron/ Potter Salt Run 1 Headwaters to Outflow of Salt Run Reservoir Sinnemahoning Portage Creek 41.522778
78.216111
53.63 9.74 4.44 2019
Centre Wallace Run 1 Headwaters to North Branch Wallace Run Bald Eagle Creek 40.930833
77.816944
18.61 53.75 6.74 2019
Clearfield Little Medix Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Medix Run 41.239444
78.418889
47.89 1.87 3.72 2019
Clearfield Slab Run 1 Headwaters to I-80 West Sandy Lick Creek 41.137289
78.789462
41.39 1.69 2017
Clinton Pepper Run 2 State Forest Boundary at RM 2.62 to Mouth Long Run 41.061389
77.353333
28.71 23.08 2.62 2019
Clinton Rockey Run 1 Headwaters to State Forest Boundary Rauchtown Creek 41.087215
77.234818
21.27 19.23 2.15 2019
Elk Kay Fork 1 Headwaters to Mouth West Creek 41.459464
78.532872
46.33 3.48 2019
Elk Mix Run 2 English Draft to Red Run Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning Creek 41.336667 78.198611 19.66 27.70 3.27 2019
Elk Mud Lick Hollow 1 Headwaters to Mouth Mix Run 41.310413
78.272812
24.36 33.53 1.61 2019
Elk Red Run 2 Paige Run to Mouth Mix Run 41.303889
78.243889
29.52 15.42 2.30 2019
Elk UNT to Mix Run (RM 5.27) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Mix Run 41.308590
78.266280
41.15 8.43 1.21 2019
Perry Blain Hollow Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Kansas Valley Run 40.356527
77.568100
47.98 1.54 2018
Perry Hemlock Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Sherman Creek 40.270832
77.630836
36.16 1.07 2018
Potter Ellisburg Creek 1 Headwaters to Mouth West Branch Genesee River 41.929955
77.894669
54.83 26.92 2.28 2019
Potter Germania Branch 1 Headwaters to Baders Hollow Kettle Creek 41.593333
77.627222
45.04 61.41 1.91 2019
Potter Germania Branch 2 Baders Hollow to Straight Run Kettle Creek 41.593333
77.627222
31.99 41.26 2.13 2019
Potter Irish Settlement Brook 1 Headwaters to Mouth West Branch Genesee River 41.983333
77.876111
6.50 40.77 2.80 2019
Potter Miller Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Little Kettle Creek 41.563333
77.703611
31.71 0.76 2.08 2019
Potter Rose Lake Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth West Branch Genesee River 41.930278
77.895000
4.09 79.56 2.86 2019
Schuylkill UNT to Lower Little Swatara Creek (RM 3.38) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Lower Little Swatara Creek 40.539072
76.339121
30.19 1.50 2019
Tioga Bear Wallow Branch 1 Headwaters to Mouth Right Asaph Run 41.807718
77.462639
166.71 4.13 1.63 2019
Tioga Left Asaph Run 1 Confluence of Baker Branch and Rice Branch to Mouth Asaph Run 41.790001
77.446388
24.29 43.23 2.04 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. 20-269. Filed for public inspection February 21, 2020, 9:00 a.m.]



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