Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Helene cost the region 600,000 trout, and native brook trout populations may have been ...

CHEROKEE — Flies swarmed the rotting rainbow trout at Doug Reed II’s feet ... But Hicks said that was a small issue compared to the devastation seen in neighboring swathes of Western North Carolina.

The Armstrong State Fish Hatchery grows 20% to 30% of the trout stocked in Western NC. Now, a state official said, ‘We lost the facility.’ ...