Date: Fri 17-Apr-1998

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Aug 11, 1999 12:00 am

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

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Spring Finally Arrives For Fishermen

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BY ANDREW GOROSKO

Opening day for trout fishing in Connecticut is Saturday, April 17, with

fishing officially starting at 6 am.

The start of trout season traditionally has drawn tens of thousands of anglers

to the state's watercourses, seeking to catch a rainbow, brook or brown.

Locally, the state stocks Pond Brook, the stream that links Taunton Pond to

Lake Lillinonah.

Also, the state stocks the Pootatuck River, the brook with headwaters near

Huntingtown Road and that empties into the Housatonic River near the red

truss-style bridge over Lake Zoar, locally known as Silver Bridge.

Small streams receive trout that are six to eight inches long, while bigger

brooks get fish from nine to 12 inches long, said James C. Moulton, the state

Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) assistant director for inland

fisheries.

The DEP places 800,000 catchable fish in its waters during the course of

fishing season, he said.

"It's catch as catch can," Mr Moulton said of the swarms of anglers who line

streams, brooks, rivers, ponds and lakes in seeking out the trout.

Opening day is an especially important day for families, Mr Moulton said,

explaining that the members of a family can join together and fish.

This fishing season the state will stock Pond Brook with about 700 yearling

brook trout, said Chuck Phillips, a DEP fishery biologist.

The Pootatuck River will receive more than 2,000 trout, including 1,600

browns, 400 brooks and 200 rainbows.

The daily creel limit on opening day and throughout the trout season is five

fish, with some exceptions.

The state advises that people not eat fish taken from the Housatonic River

above Stevenson Dam, except for yellow perch, white perch and sunfish taken

from Lake Zoar, and yellow perch and sunfish taken from Lake Lillinonah. The

fish consumption advisory stems from the Housatonic River's contamination with

PCBs, an industrial chemical introduced to the river in the past by General

Electric in Pittsfield, Mass.

A fish taken from the Pootatuck River in 1988 is the record size fish for its

species in the state. Angler William F. Shaw took a 5-pound, 12-ounce, tiger

trout from the river, according to the 1998 edition of Connecticut Angler's

Guide, a guidebook to fishing provided to anglers when they buy their fishing

licenses.

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Unfortunately, I think this is likely to get worse, not better... Based on both public comments and private conversations, I’m increasingly concerned that our newly elected First Selectman intends not just to install these cameras, but to expand their use for full-blown enforcement and fines. Try getting a straight answer out of him about the long-term plan and you quickly realize how vague the responses become. Tyler is absolutely right to raise the privacy issue. These systems don’t just “catch speeders” — they quietly build a database of where we drive, when we drive, and who is in our vehicles. Once that infrastructure is in place, it becomes very easy to justify expanding its scope: more cameras, more locations, more uses, and eventually more automated enforcement. If Newtown is going down this road, residents deserve clear, written answers to some basic questions before anything is expanded: What limits will be placed on how and where cameras are used? Will footage and plate data be used only for speed enforcement, or for other investigations too? How long will data be stored, and who can access it? What safeguards will prevent vendors and individuals from abusing this information? Without firm, enforceable rules in place, “just a few cameras to slow traffic” can turn into something very different over time. I support safe roads — but not at the cost of unchecked surveillance and vague promises from our leaders. You try getting straight answers out of our First Selectman, myself and others have not been able to...

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I had to hold back a laugh at the idea that 7:30 pm is apparently such a late-night hardship that we’re already talking about moving meetings earlier. For a lot of residents, 7:30 is the earliest they can realistically get to Town Hall after work, family obligations, and the rest of real life. Shifting BOS meetings to 7:00 might make the calendar look tidier for those in the building, but it makes participation harder for the people who pay for the building. If the new First Selectman’s week is already booked solid and evening meetings feel like a strain, that’s not a reason to move the goalposts on public access—it's a reminder that the job is supposed to be demanding. Public service means accommodating the public, even when it’s inconvenient.

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Real people were just in a frightening car accident. To immediately frame their misfortune as rhetorical ammunition against new housing — affordable housing included — feels less like concern for “health and safety” and more like opportunistically using a scary moment to support a pre-existing position. If we’re going to debate this proposal, we should do it honestly: with data on traffic volume, accident history, engineering recommendations, and the town’s housing needs, not by seizing on a single crash as proof that 300 apartments are inherently unsafe. Newtown deserves a thoughtful, fact-based conversation about growth, safety, and affordability — one that doesn’t turn other people’s bad day into a political talking point.

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To add context that did not occur at the meeting would not be an accurate representation of the meeting and would, in fact, be editorializing to shape public opinion. The editorial staff here do not consider ourselves to be final arbiters of what the truth is (and if we did, it would make us partisan and biased), and we would need to provide a source for any dissenting information (sourcing all information in an article is literally Journalism 101). There were no such sources present at the meeting in question, and so it would not be appropriate to include such information in an article about the meeting. Dissenting voices appear in meeting stories when there were active participants with dissenting opinions, such as during public participation or the words of a council member who disagreed. It should be noted that the Interfaith Council, like many local boards and commissions, conduct meetings that are open to the public. This was not an article on the actions of the Greater Danbury Area Unites for Immigrants, or on immigrants, or on ICE's actions in the community, where including other voices or perspectives would be appropriate. We appreciate your opinion, but we stand by our meeting coverage and consider this discussion closed.

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Propaganda is the systematic dissemination of information, often biased or misleading, to shape public perception and behavior toward a specific political cause or point of view. I'm not asking for Newtown Bee to editorialize, but providing context, where appropriate, to provide the reader with a more holistic view of the facts seems like a reasonable practice, particularly when encouraging the reader to decide what to believe/not to believe. Absent that context, this feels biased and misleading and intended to shape public perception.

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