Water released from upstate NY reservoir to cool trout
June 10, 2008
ALBANY, N.Y. - Trout can't take the heat, so New York officials have ordered emergency releases of cold reservoir water to cool off the Delaware River, renowned for some of the best wild trout fishing east of the Mississippi. Officials in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware agreed Monday night to increase the flow out of the Cannonsville Reservoir after a heat wave raised the river temperature to 80 degrees in some stretches. Water temperatures above 70 degrees place trout under significant stress. Pete Grannis, New York's Environmental Conservation commissioner, says the higher flow was to continue until cooler weather arrives Wednesday.
I can't believe that this "voluntary release" occured without any influence from Upstate Guides and outraged anglers from NY, NJ & CT. I can almost hear their wails and lamentations, "I drove up here to the middle of nowhere, paid good money for a cabin & a guide, and now the guide won't let me fish because you've made the river too warm...
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