What to Do With Non-Native Trout Species?

What to Do With Non-Native Trout Species?

This brown trout is clearly wild—beautiful, feisty, and fun to catch—but it lives in a river where it competes with native brook trout. Photo: Phil Monahan Fly fishers have long created a hierarchy of trout in the U.S., based on nature. At the top of the pyramid are native species, caught in the waters they’ve inhabited for millennia; next are wild trout, born in the river through natural propagation; and at the bottom are stockers, fished reare…