About
A trustworthy almanac of US fish stocking
StockedWaters collects the fish-stocking records that state wildlife agencies publish and turns them into clean, dated, source-cited pages — one for every lake and river we cover.
Why we built it
Most states publish their stocking schedules and recent-stocking reports as raw CSV exports, map services, or buried PDFs. The data is public, but it is hard to search, easy to misread, and rarely shows when a water was last stocked at the precision the agency actually reported. StockedWaters fixes that: we ingest the official open data, normalize it, geocode it where possible, and present it page-by-page so an angler can answer one question quickly — “when was this water last stocked, and by whom?”
How we handle the data
We hold ourselves to a few rules that never bend:
- We never invent date precision. If an agency reports only a month or a year, that is exactly what we show. When no date is reported, we say “not reported.”
- We reject implausible dates. Source records that decode to before 1900 or to a future date are dropped in favor of the reported year.
- Maps only show geocoded waters. “Near me” and map features exclude any record without real coordinates.
- Every page attributes its source — the reporting agency and its latest report date are always shown.
For the full picture of where the numbers come from, see our data & sources page.
What we cover today
States with full waterbody, species, and near-me pages:
More states are already ingested and coming online. StockedWaters is an independent project and is not affiliated with any state agency.
Questions or corrections
Spotted something wrong, or want your state added? Reach us at support@stockedwaters.app or through our contact page.