Kansas releases fish stocking numbers for 2018

Photo by Josh Rouse

If you’re interested in the KDWPT’s fish stocking program, here are a few statistics that might just blow your mind. In 2018, the agency has stocked the following number of fish in Kansas waters:

• Bluegill/green sunfish hybrid: 7,885 adults and 541 fingerlings.
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• Black crappie: 17,898 fry.

• Bluegill: 28,111 fingerlings.

• Channel catfish: 1,403 adults, 169,195 fingerlings and 30,224,453 fry. That includes 317,465 intermediate channel cats this coming fall.

• Grass carp (sterile): 890 intermediates.

• Hybrid black crappie: 25,000 fry.

• Largemouth bass: 476,161 fingerlings, 240 intermediates, 805,906 fry.

• Wiper: 140,563 fingerlings, 8,409,300 fry.

• Redear sunfish: 77,173 fingerlings.

• Sauger: 28,451 fingerlings, 1,975,000 fry.

• Saugeye: 132,158 fingerlings, 9,664,600 fry.

​• Smallmouth bass: 4,133 fingerlings.

• Striped bass: 1,100,000 fry.

• Walleye: 73,183 fingerlines, 56,172,720 fry.

In addition, if you purchased a trout stamp this year, you helped with the purchase of 58,591 rainbow trout stocked into more than 30 designated trout waters between Jan. 1 and April 15, 2018, according to the agency. A new schedule of trout stockings will begin Nov. 1, when the season reopens.