StockingMap

Alaska Fish Stocking Report and Schedule, Fall 2026

Fish and Game logs releases within about a day, area by area: rainbows, char, grayling, and landlocked salmon from the state hatcheries.

Data checked 2026-10-24 · source: Alaska Department of Fish and Game

485 stocking entries on the 2026 Alaska record, across 268 waters, from Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The published counts add up to 6,578,694 fish.

Stocking runs February and again April through October, heaviest in June.

What goes in: rainbow trout, coho salmon, chinook salmon and arctic char, and 1 more species. Rainbow trout alone accounts for 340 of the entries.

This page adds live water level and temperature on 1 gauged water.

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485 stocking records 2026
268 waters
6,578,694 fish reported

Stocked in the last 45 days

DateWaterCountySpecies Fish
Oct 6 Chena Lake Chinook salmon 3,216
Oct 6 Cushman Lake Chinook salmon 2,887
Oct 6 Cushman Lake Chinook salmon 6,073
Oct 5 Chena Lake Chinook salmon 2,466
Oct 5 Chena Lake Chinook salmon 4,634
Oct 5 Chena Lake Chinook salmon 3,443
Oct 5 Cushman Lake Chinook salmon 2,465
Oct 2 Finger Lake Coho salmon 24,752
Oct 1 Knik Lake Coho salmon 4,153
Oct 1 Matanuska Lake Coho salmon 5,539
Oct 1 Memory Lake Coho salmon 6,012
Oct 1 Sport Lake Coho salmon 3,239
Sep 30 Birch Lake Chinook salmon 3,001
Sep 30 Chena Lake Chinook salmon 2,586
Sep 30 Chena Lake Chinook salmon 2,438
Sep 30 Chena Lake Chinook salmon 4,918
Sep 30 Lost Lake Chinook salmon 409
Sep 29 Campbell Point Lake Coho salmon 6,831
Sep 29 DeLong Lake Coho salmon 9,006
Sep 29 Finger Lake Coho salmon 15,976
Sep 29 Otto Lake Chinook salmon 308
Sep 29 Quartz Lake Chinook salmon 3,845
Sep 29 Quartz Lake Chinook salmon 199
Sep 28 Grayling Lake (Eielson AFB) Chinook salmon 1,006
Sep 28 Green Lake (Anchorage) Coho salmon 3,064
Sep 28 Hillberg Lake Coho salmon 3,006
Sep 28 Jewel Lake (Anchorage) Coho salmon 11,105
Sep 28 North Pole Pond Chinook salmon 309
Sep 28 Quartz Lake Chinook salmon 4,258
Sep 22 Bolio Lake Chinook salmon 400
Sep 22 Coal Mine 5 Chinook salmon 407
Sep 22 Dick's Pond Lake trout 202
Sep 22 Donnelly Lake Lake trout 404
Sep 22 Harding Lake Lake trout 8,904
Sep 22 Ken's Pond Lake trout 200
Sep 22 North Twin Lake Lake trout 209
Sep 22 Paul's Pond Lake trout 100
Sep 22 Rangeview Lake Lake trout 93
Sep 15 Clunie Lake Lake trout 954
Sep 15 Harding Lake Lake trout 3,846
Sep 15 Long Lake (Glenn Highway) Lake trout 3,212
Sep 15 Matanuska Lake Lake trout 2,718
Sep 15 Sand Lake (Anchorage) Lake trout 972
Sep 10 Lost Lake (Res Bay) Lake trout 950
Sep 10 Upper Summit Lake Lake trout 3,982

The 2026 season at a glance

Stocking records by month. Summer-heavy, hatchery releases.

Jan ·
Feb 5
Mar ·
Apr 4
May 128
Jun 248
Jul 9
Aug 36
Sep 43
Oct 12
Nov ·
Dec ·

What gets stocked

SpeciesStockings Fish
Rainbow trout 340 1,066,781
Coho salmon 56 1,227,466
Chinook salmon 42 4,221,027
Arctic char 27 32,318
Lake trout 20 31,102

Schedule changes

When the agency moves or drops a published date, it shows here instead of quietly disappearing.

All stocked waters

Every Alaska water we hold a stocking page for, county by county, with its most recent date. The filter above narrows this list too.

Statewide 137

Questions about Alaska stocking

When does Alaska stock fish?
Alaska Department of Fish and Game stocked fish February and again April through October in 2026. The most recent entry on this page is Oct 6.
Is there a printable Alaska stocking schedule?
Yes. The print view on this page lays the Alaska schedule out for paper, including a county index, and can be filtered to a single county before printing.
How do I get Alaska stocking updates automatically?
This page offers an RSS feed and a calendar feed for Alaska, and each county page offers the same for that county alone. Subscribing to the calendar puts announced stocking dates straight into your own calendar.
How current is this Alaska stocking information?
The record on this page is rebuilt every morning from Alaska Department of Fish and Game's own publications. It was last read Oct 24. Schedules change without notice, sometimes the morning of the stocking, so check the agency's page before a long drive.
Which Alaska waters have live conditions?
1 Alaska water carries a USGS gauge, so its page shows the current level, the flow against the seasonal normal and the water temperature where the gauge reports one.
All rows come from Alaska Department of Fish and Game publications (official page). Schedules change without notice, sometimes the same morning. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Alaska fishing regulations.