7/4/09:  Lake Champlain Walleye Association and Vermont Fish & Wildlife have been working for decades to increase the population of walleyes in the lake and its surrounding rivers.

Thursday they harvested a St Albans pond of 12,500 walleye fingerlings which will be making their way into the Winooski River.

Editor’s Note: My good friend and fellow filmmaker Keith Wilson of Walleye Productions makes a brief appearance in this video.

This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2009.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Arts Council in 2023. This map details her travels around the state; her 500th video was a musical. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday...