RI DEM to Stock Salmon & Trout for Winter Fishing Season
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RI DEM to Stock Salmon & Trout for Winter Fishing Season
The trout will be stocked in three wheelchair accessible ponds from Wednesday, January 15 through Friday, January 17, in advance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
DEM advises anglers to check with individual communities about safe ice conditions on local ponds before ice fishing, as DEM does not monitor ice conditions in local communities.
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- Carbuncle Pond, Coventry
- Olney Pond, Lincoln Woods State Park, Lincoln
- Upper Melville-Thurston Gray Pond, Portsmouth
Fishing License & Laws
RI DEM reminds fishermen that a current fishing license and a Trout Conservation Stamp are required to keep or possess a trout or salmon.
The daily creel and possession limit for trout and/or salmon singly or in aggregate, is two fish, from December 1, 2019, through February 29, 2020.
Anglers are reminded to obey all fishing and boating regulations.
The recreational advisories for blue-green algae enacted last summer at Carbuncle and Melville Ponds have been lifted by the RI Department of Health.