Federal Aid to Fish Restoration Annual Performance Report, Man-Made Lakes Fisheries Investigations, 1976

(1976) Federal Aid to Fish Restoration Annual Performance Report, Man-Made Lakes Fisheries Investigations, 1976. Natural Resources, Department of

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Abstract

Private owned lands in Iowa contain more than 40,000 small man-made ponds that were constructed for a myriad of reasons. Individually, these impoundments are small bodies of water, but collectively they represent more than 17,000 surface acres of water that are an integral part of recreational angling in this state. Most of these ponds contain fish that were stocked by a governmental agency, private purchase or transferred from other waters. A recent survey of resident anglers indicated 11% of the fishing in Iowa occurred in farm ponds (see Fishing in Iowa, A Survey of Iowa Anglers, May, 1976; Iowa Conservation Commission Publication). The importance of farm ponds in the Southwest Region was even more evident where 16% of the respondents indicated a preference for this type of angling. Nearly one-half (47%) of the resident fishermen contacted in one district of the Southwest Region stated farm pond fishing was their first choice.