The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is holding public meetings in each region this fall to provide an overview of New York’s approach to trout-stream management.

Anglers can state their preferences and expectation for stream management at the meetings.

The meetings will feature a 30-minute presentation describing how DEC currently manages trout streams and will include key findings of a statewide study completed in 2015.  The presentation will be followed by a 90-minute discussion period aimed at identifying the measures of trout stream angling quality most important to this segment of New York’s the angling public.

The first meeting will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 13, at the 4-H training center at 556 Middleline Road in Ballston Spa. On Sept. 19, another meeting will be held at the Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources at the State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology Cobleskill in Schoharie County. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation begins at 7 p.m.