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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 21-207

NOTICES

FISH AND BOAT COMMISSION

Proposed Changes to List of Class A Wild Trout Waters; April 2021

[51 Pa.B. 755]
[Saturday, February 6, 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 April 12 and 13, 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
Blair Redlick Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Adams Run 40.433096
78.533803
44.44 1.26 2020
Cameron/
Clinton
Lebo Branch 1 Headwaters to Mouth Crawford Branch 41.357967
77.967461
25.30 16.84 2.11 2020
Centre Hayes Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Beech Creek 41.105278
77.750000
55.66 3.64 2020
Centre Two Rock Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Beech Creek 41.113333
77.775000
43.86 3.00 2020
Clinton Cold Fork 1 Headwaters to Mouth Baker Run 41.230432
77.641815
36.65 2.86 2.04 2020
Clinton Cougar Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Left Branch Hyner Run 41.407050
77.602688
33.01 1.68 2020
Clinton Crawford Branch 1 Headwaters to Mouth Cooks Run 41.354443
77.963890
35.58 39.30 2.28 2020
Clinton Eagleton Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Baker Run 41.231507
77.619080
40.21 4.93 1.60 2020
Clinton Left Branch Hyner Run 1 Headwaters to
Big Slide Hollow Run
Hyner Run 41.378044
77.607920
39.58 6.55 2.77 2020
Clinton Right Branch Hyner Run 1 Headwaters to Spring Run Hyner Run 41.377778
77.608333
39.53 1.75 2020
Clinton Shoemaker Branch 1 Headwaters to Mouth Baker Run 41.230556
77.644167
51.48 17.97 2.60 2020
Clinton Weaver Hollow 1 Headwaters to Mouth Paddy Run 41.361208
77.750417
72.62 3.31 1.06 2020
Elk McDonald Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Bell Draft 41.362164
78.319059
60.48 1.92 2020
Indiana North Branch Two Lick Creek 2 UNT at RM 3.57 to Mouth Two Lick Creek 40.673744
78.963654
4.94 47.59 3.57 2020
Lackawanna Painter Creek 1 Headwaters to Mouth Panther Creek 41.282778
75.630833
45.57 3.65 3.44 2020
Lackawanna Rattlesnake Creek 1 Outlet Maple Lake to SR 690 Spring Brook 41.313889
75.638333
5.97 64.72 2.12 2020
Lycoming Hackett Fork 1 Headwaters to Mouth Otter Run 41.420758
77.355647
65.79 2.14 2020
Lycoming Lick Run
(English Center)
1 Headwaters to Mouth Little Pine Creek 41.436111
77.279444
68.86 0.88 3.93 2020
Lycoming Ott Fork 1 Headwaters to Mouth Upper Pine Bottom Run 41.318041
77.415916
51.85 17.82 2.72 2020
Lycoming Shadrach Draft 1 Headwaters to Mouth Lick Run 41.432331
77.271812
90.17 1.52 2020
Mercer/ Venango UNT to Little Sandy Creek (RM 5.64) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Little Sandy Creek 41.379858
79.985984
0.81 81.44 3.21 2020
Mercer/ Venango UNT to Little Sandy Creek (RM 6.70) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Little Sandy Creek 41.386813
79.998035
35.98 14.36 1.57 2020
Potter Shaytown Branch 1 Headwaters to Tinker Stevens Road Bell Run 41.917274
78.203033
59.07 2.30 2020
Potter Spring Brook 1 Headwaters to Mouth Left Branch Young Womans Creek 41.483442
77.682451
37.94 7.66 2.87 2020
Tioga Three Springs Run 1 Headwaters to Mouth Zimmerman Creek 41.552943
77.254231
40.18 1.63 1.33 2020
Tioga UNT to Harrison Run (RM 1.54) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Harrison Run 41.571720
77.285520
31.18 0.73 2020
Union UNT to Rapid Run (RM 10.47) 1 Headwaters to Mouth Rapid Run 40.980785
77.184288
50.49 0.54 0.60 2020
Venango UNT to French Creek (RM 7.75) 1 Headwaters to Mouth French Creek 41.417953
79.927282
32.08 1.47 2020

 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. 21-207. Filed for public inspection February 5, 2021, 9:00 a.m.]



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