Planting new lakes?

[SWH]

With new lakes having formed in the past years, due to certain glaciers shrinking, I was curious if any of these get planted. How does that process work? Does it take many, many years for these lakes to be able to support fish?
Just a question I had, figured I’d ask. Thanks.

[Brian Curtis]

Only lakes that have been historically planted will continue to be planted. That means no fish in newly formed lakes.

As you surmised, they would typically be poor for fish anyway. Water in those lakes is typically cold and there is very little organic material to support insect life. It would be fascinating to track invertebrate colonization. I’m guessing they would typically support a small number of fish if they were stocked but growth rates would be slow.

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