Lake Ontario stockings aim to boost local economy [Video]

It’s an effort aimed to boost both conservation in the lake and the economies of its shoreline communities.

Anticipated day

It’s a day of anticipation which brings volunteers and onlookers to the Newfane Town Marina in Olcott in what is generally a quiet time of year for the community, which becomes bustling in the summer.

Four DEC tanker trucks pulled up to the marina delivering 138,000 chinook salmon and 15,000 steelhead, which were transported roughly 200 miles from a DEC hatchery in Oswego County.

They were discharged with pipes and placed in pens which were then towed to docks near the mouth of 18 Mile Creek where they will be kept and fed for three weeks before being released.

Salmon are known to return to the place where they hatched when it comes time …