Stiffer penalties for illegal stocking

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Mar 19, 2010 at 4:58 AM MST

Story Updated: Mar 19, 2010 at 4:58 AM MST

POWELL, WYOMING - The Wyoming Game and Fish Department hopes that a new law imposing stiffer penalties for people who are stocking fish illegally in state waters will put a halt to the practice.

Gov. Dave Freudenthal on March 10 signed a bill into law that specifies violators could be fined up to $10,000 and face up to a year in jail for illegal stocking.

Mike Stone is chief of fisheries for the game department in Cheyenne. He says that catching a few people breaking the law and hitting them with the new penalties would probably help to reduce the problem.

Among the illegally stocked fish the department has found are walleye stocked in Buffalo Bill Reservoir. The game department fears they will hurt trout in the reservoir and possibly upstream.

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