Pounds of Fish Stocked

State and federal agencies increased both the number and size of the fish they produced over the course of the twentieth century. By 2004, these agencies were stocking more than 40 million pounds of fish in the freshwaters of the United States every year, close to half of which were rainbow trout.

From: Halverson, MA. 2008. Stocking Trends: A Quantitative Review of Governmental Fish Stocking in the United States, 1931-1004. Fisheries 33(2):69-75