{
  "name": "fish-stocking",
  "title": "US fish stocking records",
  "description": "Fish stocking records published by US state wildlife agencies, normalised to one schema and matched to the waters they went into.",
  "created": "2026-09-11T00:00:00Z",
  "homepage": "https://anglinghubs.com/data/fish-stocking",
  "licenses": [
    {
      "name": "CC-BY-4.0",
      "path": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
      "title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife",
      "path": "https://data.wa.gov/resource/6fex-3r7d",
      "licence": "data.wa.gov open-data portal. No restrictive licence.",
      "note": "The largest feed, and it publishes no fish length, so none of these records carry a size."
    },
    {
      "title": "Utah Division of Wildlife Resources",
      "path": "https://services.arcgis.com/ZzrwjTRez6FJiOq4/arcgis/rest/services/UDWR_Fish_Stocking_Events_1979_2024_VIEW/FeatureServer",
      "licence": "Warranty disclaimer only, no use restriction.",
      "note": "The published record stops at the end of 2024. Later Utah stockings exist but are HTML only, so they are not in this file."
    },
    {
      "title": "New York State Department of Environmental Conservation",
      "path": "https://data.ny.gov/resource/e52k-ymww",
      "licence": "Open NY. No attribution, share-alike, or pre-approval required.",
      "note": "Dates are month precision. Every New York row carries the first of the month, not the day the fish went in."
    },
    {
      "title": "Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks",
      "path": "https://services3.arcgis.com/Cdxz8r11hT0MGzg1/arcgis/rest/services/FISH_PLANTS/FeatureServer/0",
      "licence": "Warranty disclaimer only, no use restriction.",
      "note": "The deepest feed in the set: waterbody, coordinates, species, number, size, exact date, hatchery and strain."
    },
    {
      "title": "California Department of Fish and Wildlife",
      "path": "https://services2.arcgis.com/Uq9r85Potqm3MfRV/arcgis/rest/services/biosds2897_fmu/FeatureServer/0",
      "licence": "CC BY. Attribution required.",
      "note": "A thin slice: recent months only, with no fish counts and no sizes. Announced-but-unmade plants are excluded."
    }
  ],
  "resources": [
    {
      "name": "fish-stocking-events",
      "path": "https://cimuxscuhjptusdzcbbu.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/open-data/fish-stocking/fish-stocking-events.csv",
      "format": "csv",
      "mediatype": "text/csv",
      "bytes": 26240214,
      "description": "One row per stocking record, joined to the water it went into. This is the full dataset."
    },
    {
      "name": "fish-stocking-waters",
      "path": "https://cimuxscuhjptusdzcbbu.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/open-data/fish-stocking/fish-stocking-waters.csv",
      "format": "csv",
      "mediatype": "text/csv",
      "bytes": 400599,
      "description": "One row per water, with its coordinates, its total stockings and fish, and the span of its record."
    },
    {
      "name": "fish-stocking-waters",
      "path": "https://cimuxscuhjptusdzcbbu.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/open-data/fish-stocking/fish-stocking-waters.geojson",
      "format": "geojson",
      "mediatype": "application/geo+json",
      "bytes": 1330370,
      "description": "The same waters as points, ready to drop into QGIS, Mapbox, Leaflet or a notebook."
    }
  ]
}