Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission
Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations
Chapter 49 - PRIVATE STOCKING OF COLD-BLOODED WILDLIFE
Section 49-4 - Application for Authorization to Stock Fish

Universal Citation: WY Code of Rules 49-4

Current through March 23, 2024

No fish, fish eggs or fish gametes shall be stocked in the waters of this state unless authorized in accordance with this regulation.

(a) Any person intending to acquire fish for stocking waters on privately owned lands shall submit an application for Private Fish Stocking Authorization on forms provided by the Department to the Chief of Fisheries at least ten (10) business days before the intended stocking date, unless otherwise specified in this regulation. A separate application is required for each body of water or stream for which fish stocking authorization is requested and for each time stocking is to occur.

(b) Any person wishing to stock marine fish, tropical fish, Goldfish (Carassius auratus) or koi into ornamental ponds (as defined in Commission Regulation Chapter 69, Importation and Possession of Live Cold-Blooded Wildlife) is exempted from the private fish stocking authorization requirements of this section. Application for authorization is not required. Those fish shall not be released or allowed to escape into the waters of this state.

(i) Stocking any other nongame fish (as defined in Commission Regulation Chapter 69, Importation and Possession of Live Cold-Blooded Wildlife) into ornamental ponds is subject to all of the requirements of this regulation and requires an importation/possession permit in accordance with Commission Regulation Chapter 69, Importation and Possession of Live Cold-Blooded Wildlife.

(ii) Stocking of game fish in ornamental ponds shall be restricted to coldwater, coolwater and warmwater fish (as defined in Commission Regulation Chapter 51, Private Fish Hatcheries) in accordance with Section 6 of this regulation and is subject to all other requirements of this regulation and requirements described in Commission Regulation Chapter 69, Importation and Possession of Live Cold-Blooded Wildlife.

(c) The Department may deny an application for private fish stocking if;

(i) Information is falsified on the application;

(ii) The application is not filled out completely, correctly and legibly;

(iii) The private fish hatchery listed on the application is not designated a Department approved private fish hatchery as defined in Commission Regulation Chapter 51, Private Fish Hatcheries;

(iv) The fish requested do not meet the requirements of Section 6 of this regulation;

(v) The application is to stock game fish in a stream that has been documented by the Department to support naturally reproducing game fish populations; or,

(vi) The Department determines that the species requested may threaten native species due to predation, hybridization or competition or otherwise conflicts with Department management goals for the drainage.

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