Chicopee – Children of the school break formed a brigade of cubes on Wednesday, helping tortillas from a mobile fish tank to the Chicopee reservoir.
“I have a big one!” A boy called his father, lifting his orange bucket on the ground to make them.
“Let me see!” Said another boy.
About a hundred people of all ages gathered at the Chicopee Memorial State Park Wednesday morning for the second Masswildlife omelette.
The State Agency holds tortilla storage events in Commonwealth to foster more fishing, said Brian Keleher, a water biologist at Masswildlife. The Chicopee reservoir was chosen for “stellar access to the public and proximity to populated urban areas,” he said.
A long line of people is waiting for their turn to publish a fish bucket during the annual supply of the Masswildlife tortilla in the Chicopee reservoir at Chicopee State Park. (Don Treeger for the Republican) 04/23/2025The Republican
“We are very interested in getting people to fish,” he said. By 2024, about 193,000 fishing fishing licenses were purchased in the state, according to Masswildlife data.
Masswildlife will continue to store fish throughout the state until the end of May. The storage point of lakes and lakes in early spring is because “trout prefers coldest water,” said Keleher.
Young people release the omelette during Masswildlife Annual Trout on the Chicopee reservoir at Chicopee State Park. (Don Treeger for the Republican) 04/23/2025The Republican
“Trout does it right now and swim more thoroughly for the colder parts of a body of water once it reaches the start of summer,” he said.
Wednesday storage went from 1,200 to 1,400 tortillas in the tank.
The rainbow, the stream and the brown omelette were led to Chicopee in fish deposits isolated from the hatches of Sunderland and Belchertown.
“The storage of three different types of tortillas aims to provide people with varieties in their fishing experience,” Keleher said, who explained that only stream trout is native to the North Region -East of the United States.
The trout storage program in Massachusetts is a “eye blow”, Keleher said, which means that the trout is put in water masses throughout the state with the intention of being trapped.
The Agency encourages people interested in fishing to visit their omelet storage information website: Mass.gov/trout for more information about when and where the tortilla has been placed in masses of water throughout Spain.