Abstract
Abstract In 1996, fishery administrators from every U.S. state were surveyed about an array of coldwater management topics ranging from the composition of coldwater fishery resources, to threats facing resources, to expertise and strategies employed by the agency. Administrators in 49 states returned completed surveys and provided information on the general challenges facing coldwater fishery resources and the conditions under which these resources are managed. For example, 47 states managed coldwater fisheries. Of these, 38 cited habitat-related problems as the most commonly identified obstacles to maintaining self-sustaining trout or salmon populations. Yet in spite of this observation, funding for aquatic habitat programs through fishery management agencies was generally but a fraction of their budgets. In contrast, the states cumulatively operated 369 coldwater hatcheries, which consumed sizable portions of their annual budgets, and licensed an additional 1,200 private coldwater facilities nationwide....
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