DEC stocks close to 2 million catchable-size brook, brown, and rainbow trout in over 309 lakes and ponds and roughly 2,900 miles of streams across the state each spring. This dataset represents the planned stocking numbers, species and time of spring for those waters for the current fishing season. The current stocking data is updated annually in mid-March.

DEC stocks approximately 900,000 pounds of fish into more than 1,200 public streams, rivers, lakes and ponds across the state. Also included in the data are public stockings by Essex, Onondaga and Warren counties.