As a fellow Michigander involved with the West Michigan Walleye club and our fish pond here in GR, fish stocking cannot fix overfishing and habitat destruction.

As a fellow Michigander involved with the West Michigan Walleye club and our fish pond here in GR, fish stocking cannot fix overfishing and habitat destruction. We stock cool and cold-water breeding species like walleye, pike, trout, and salmon because their breeding areas have been destroyed. The process turns a productive, diverse pond and stream system into a monocrop so we can still have walleye for sportfishing in a select few lakes. It can help the species survive until we can get our heads on straight; it's not ecologically healthier than the natural state.