The Fisheries Division is responsible for conserving and managing all fish and fish habitats throughout Vermont.

Vermont's fisheries biologists are engaged in a wide variety of activities to ensure Vermont's valuable fisheries resources are sustained and enhanced through time. These activities include:

• Inventorying and monitoring the abundance, distribution, diversity, and health of Vermont's fish and their habitat. | »more

  The data collected is used to assess the impacts of fishing pressure, predation, disease, parasites and habitat changes on fish populations, and help formulate management actions.

• Implementing management actions to keep fish populations healthy, balanced, and productive, and to improve and enhance aquatic communities and fishing in Vermont. | »more

  Fishing regulations, fish stocking, nuisance species control, and habitat improvement are examples of management actions.

• Gathering information on recreational desires, preferences, and satisfaction level of anglers. | »more

  We strive to satisfy anglers' desires as we manage the resource, within the bounds of sound science.

• Participating in environmental impact review of hydroelectric dams and other projects that could negatively impact fish habitat and fish populations. | »more

  Land and water use practices have degraded fish habitat. Although many of the early problems involving dams, deforestation and industrial pollution are being addressed, other threats such as the spread of nuisance species and new diseases continue to create new management challenges.