The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is encouraging anglers to buy walleye stamps. All the money goes toward the cost of purchasing walleye from private fish farms for stocking into lakes. The DNR’s Neil Vanderbosch says walleye stocking efforts ramp up each year in April when fisheries staff collect walleye eggs, fertilize them and transport them to the fish hatcheries.

 

Funds from the walleye stamp have purchased more than 40,000 pounds of walleye fingerlings that are stocked in the fall all over the state.