Finsylvannia
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<p>Finsylvania is a podcast dedicated to discussing and changing how we manage fish in Pennsylvania. There are action alerts in each episode to drive stakeholder engagement with elected officials, members of the media, and fish managers. Tune in, take action, and lets improve fisheries management in Pennsylvania!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />fishing license PA<br />PA fishing regulations<br />trout stocking schedule PA<br />fishing license issuing agent near me<br />fishing permits PA<br />fishing tackle loaner sites <br />Fishing Locations:<br />fishing near me<br />fishing spots in [county/city] (e.g., fishing spots in Erie)<br />best fishing waters PA<br />fly fishing streams Pennsylvania<br />ice fishing PA<br />Susquehanna River fishing, Lake Arthur fishing, Oil Creek fishing, Presque Isle Bay fishing <br />trout fishing PA<br />bass fishing Pennsylvania<br />steelhead fishing Lake Erie<br />walleye fishing PA<br />small stream fishing Pennsylvania<br />fly fishing PA<br />best flies for small creeks <br />Real-time Information:<br />Pennsylvania fishing reports<br />stream reports PA<br />water levels <br /><br />#pafishing #stockingreform #conservation #pennsylvaniaflyfishing #stopstockingoverwildfish #blueliner #nativefish #pafishandboat #fisheriesmanagement #brooktrout #hellbenders #nativebrooktrout #flyfishing #fishing</p>
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11/18/2025
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July 13, 2026
The Stocking Reform Campaign: Phil and I kick it off!
Hey everyone,Thanks for participating in the Finsylvania Stocking Reform Campaign!Here is the link to the action center built by Philip Light from UnicornBrookies.com where you can send e-mails to hundreds of politicians and the journalists who cover them. 👉 https://www.unicornbrookies.com/campaign/Please try to personalize your message if you can, and only use the AI email text generator as a starting point to add to or change to your desired wording.(suggested talking points at bottom of e-mail)AFTER YOU SEND YOUR E-MAIL CALL POLITICIANS & JOURNALISTS TOO!!!Here are phone numbers to call and advocate for stocking reform! Politicians Call Josh Shapiro717-787-2500Call Greg Rothman’s office(Chair of senate game and fish committee) 7177871377Find your state senator/representative’s office via this link! 👉 https://www.palegis.us/find-my-legislatorMediaCALL AND ASK WHY THEY ARE NOT REPORTING ON WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE AT FISH AND BOAT!!Statewide & Investigative Spotlight PA (Statewide Capital/Investigative): (717) 418-9684 Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN): (717) 730-6000Harrisburg & Central PA PennLive / Patriot-News (Harrisburg): (717) 255-8100 WGAL Channel 8 (Lancaster/Harrisburg NBC): (717) 393-5300 ABC27 WHTM (Harrisburg ABC): (717) 745-3413 CBS21 WHP (Harrisburg CBS): (717) 238-2100 Fox43 WPMT (York/Harrisburg Fox): (717) 843-0043 LNP / LancasterOnline: (717) 291-8811Pittsburgh & Western PA Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: (412) 263-1601 TribLIVE / Tribune-Review: (724) 834-1151 KDKA Channel 2 (Pittsburgh CBS): (412) 575-2245 WTAE Channel 4 (Pittsburgh ABC): (412) 244-4444 WPXI Channel 11 (Pittsburgh NBC): (412) 237-1100 Philadelphia & Eastern PA The Philadelphia Inquirer: (215) 854-4500 6ABC WPVI (Philadelphia ABC): (215) 878-9700 CBS News Philadelphia / KYW: (215) 977-5333 (Direct Tip Line) NBC10 WCAU (Philadelphia NBC): (610) 668-5555 Fox 29 WTXF (Philadelphia Fox): (215) 982-5500 The Morning Call (Allentown/Lehigh Valley): (610) 820-6500Northeast & Northwest PA WNEP Channel 16 (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre ABC): (570) 344-1616 The Times-Tribune (Scranton): (570) 348-9100 Erie Times-News: (814) 870-1600 WJET Channel 24 (Erie ABC): (814) 864-2400FIND THESE POLITICIANS AND JOURNALISTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ADVOCATE THERE TOO!!!These are the big points to include in any messages to politicians or the media:1. Financial waste and reckless spending: This includes $100 million in taxpayer infrastructure grant dollars used to bail out hatcheries. A 2027 PSU Business School analysis stated that hatchery cuts were unavoidable; instead of making these cuts, we are draining the taxpayers.2. Ecological damage: The current system causes ecological damage to native brook trout and hellbenders, while decreasing the quality of wild trout fishing.3. The stream access crisis: This is the direct opportunity cost of hatcheries stealing stream access easement money for decades.4. Waste, fraud, and abuse: Executive Director Tim Schaeffer and his crony commissioners must be REMOVED, and brave whistleblowers like Eric Hussar must be protected from retaliation. Abuses include self-dealing to private businesses using commission resources, sweetheart stocking exemptions for wealthy, for-profit trout clubs, and shadow governance by Tim Schaeffer, who stripped all public meeting recordings from YouTube.5. The danger of a Fish/Game commission merger: It would be a massive mistake to view a Fish & Boat / Game Commission merger as anything more than yet another hatchery bailout(license fee increases, $100 million tax payer grant dollars, senate bill 800, and now this). The money to bail out hatcheries would come from the Game Commission's oil and gas revenues—funds that are supposed to buy public land in the form of State Game Lands for hunting and fishing. We need to fix the PFBC, not find it a Game Commission "sugar daddy" to continue its reckless spending and reduce public land purchasing ability as a result.6. We need
June 22, 2026
PA Fish & Boat: Off Mission and Over Budget- Getting it back on the rails with Eric Hussar
this special episode, I interview Fish Commissioner Eric Hussar of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission about the agency’s ballooning hatchery costs and its failure to make cuts recommended by the Penn State Smeal College of Business a decade ago—cuts that could have avoided these issues entirely. We discuss the agency’s transition from the 'Operation Future' era, to the stocking-cut pragmatism under John Arway, to its more recent abandonment of its stated 'resource first' mission in favor of doubling down on commercial-scale, invasive fish farming that is spending it into oblivion.Eric gets candid about the lack of leadership regarding the agency’s true mandated mission in the PA Code, and how much of the board has lost its way. We discuss the shameful—but completely legal in PA—stocking of Australian Barramundi in the Delaware River this year, which was uncovered via notice of stocking in PFBC Right-to-Know requests. We also talk about the urgent need for a stocking authorization before shared watersheds in New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, and New York get permanently harmed by Pennsylvania's 'Wild West' approach to private stocking.Furthermore, we cover the long history of overspending on hatcheries and the many off-ramps we could have taken, using Freeman Run and other examples. We discuss Governor Josh Shapiro’s recent, unfortunate decision to bring back Commissioner William Brock, who has a history of conflicts of interest, failing the agency's mission, and arguing for sweetheart stocking exemptions that threaten high-conservation-value aquatic ecosystems. I also bring up DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn’s long history of looking the other way on stocking inside DCNR Wild and Natural Areas, which are legally supposed to 'protect native biodiversity.' She, Josh Shapiro, Greg Rothman, and Anita Kulik Astorino, among many others, have ignored hundreds of letters for years from people calling to protect taxpayer infrastructure grants and our state fish from seemingly limitless hatchery spending.How do we fix it? Tune in and find out.#pennsylvania #brooktrout #troutstocking #pafishing #pawildsCheck out Unicornbrookies.com for the most evidence based and thought provoking written word out there on our state fish!!!Check out https://darkskiesflyfishing.com/ for some of the best flyfishing writing, articles, how-to, and content out there!!!
June 9, 2026
(Video On YouTube)Coverage of Current Big Spring Stream Project Construction
I dropped by the Big Spring in Cumberland County Pennsylvania to film the newly constructed engineered habitat structures for you guys. I walk you through alot of them and talk about some of the research, case studies, and anecdotal examples of the effects of engineered instream structures on native brook trout populations in streams highly invaded by non-native trout. We found some friendly PA fish and boat commission staff who explained the surveys before the habitat project and the funding/permiting for this work. One thing I was thankful for atleast was they were aware of some of this research and tried to limit depth to 2 feet since more depth seems to correlate with worse outcomes for brook trout in some case studies and anecdotal examples. A survey is planned in the future, we will be covering that as well. #brooktrout#flyfishing #bigspring
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- What is Finsylvannia?
<p>Finsylvania is a podcast dedicated to discussing and changing how we manage fish in Pennsylvania. There are action alerts in each episode to drive stakeholder engagement with elected officials, members of the media, and fish managers. Tune in, take action, and lets improve fisheries management in Pennsylvania!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />fishing license PA<br />PA fishing regulations<br />trout stocking schedule PA<br />fishing license issuing agent near me<br />fishing permits PA<br />fishing tackle loaner sites <br />Fishing Locations:<br />fishing near me<br />fishing spots in [county/city] (e.g., fishing spots in Erie)<br />best fishing waters PA<br />fly fishing streams Pennsylvania<br />ice fishing PA<br />Susquehanna River fishing, Lake Arthur fishing, Oil Creek fishing, Presque Isle Bay fishing <br />trout fishing PA<br />bass fishing Pennsylvania<br />steelhead fishing Lake Erie<br />walleye fishing PA<br />small stream fishing Pennsylvania<br />fly fishing PA<br />best flies for small creeks <br />Real-time Information:<br />Pennsylvania fishing reports<br />stream reports PA<br />water levels <br /><br />#pafishing #stockingreform #conservation #pennsylvaniaflyfishing #stopstockingoverwildfish #blueliner #nativefish #pafishandboat #fisheriesmanagement #brooktrout #hellbenders #nativebrooktrout #flyfishing #fishing</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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