By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The State Game and Fish Department stocked a total of 18,579 triploid rainbow trout last week that weighed a total of 6,647 pounds. Included in the stocking were 993 trout that averaged between 15.2 and 17.8 inches in size that weighed a total of 1,910 pounds.
For the past 10 seasons the Department has included the stocking of larger-than-average rainbow trout in its regular stocking routine. This had initially started because the Department had to close the Los Ojos Fish Hatchery due to the presence of Whirling Disease.
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