Last month, the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries stocked Lake Jordan with more than 227,000 Florida largemouth bass fingerlings, the first of three such stockings that will occur between mid-May and mid-June each year through 2017.
The fingerlings were raised at the Marion and Eastaboga state fish hatcheries and were stocked into the 700-acre Lake Bouldin embayment of Lake Jordan, known locally as New Lake.
According to Damon Abernethy, WFF Fisheries Development Coordinator, New Lake will be stocked with close to 1 million Florida largemouth fingerlings by the end of June 2017. This year’s stocking nearly tripled the number of Florida bass stocked in the lake since the inception of Alabama’s Florida bass program in the 1970s.
“The targeted stocking density for the New Lake embayment of Lake Jordan is 350 fingerlings per acre annually from 2015 through 2017,” Abernethy said. “This will result in approximately 750,000 pure Florida bass fingerlings being stocked.”
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