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1500 Northern Pike
Stocked in State
The Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries just completed the release of approximately 1,500 nine to eleven inch Northern Pike in selected waters around the state, according to Fish Division Chief R. G. Martin. The fish were reared at the Commission's King and Queen Fish Cultural Station. About 250 of the fish were placed in the Commission’s new Orange County Lake, 220 went to Commission owned Airfield Pond in Sussex County, 200 were released in Beaver Creek Reservoir in Albemarle County, 130 were stocked in a 60-acre lake at the Naval Weapons Depot, 300 were placed in the Mattaponi River, and. about 281 were stocked in Chickahominy Reservoir.
Approximately 150 of the rapidly growing fish were retained at the King and Queen Station for brood stock. “We estimate that it will take these fish about 2 years to reach the legal 26' size,' Martin said/ The Commission would Jike .reports on any of these jfish caught and released in the imeantiipe.
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