Minnesota is first nationally in the sales of fishing licenses per capita.

Fish species: 158

Fishing waters: 3,800,000 acres

Fishable lakes: 5,493

Fishable streams (cold and warm water): 15,000 miles

Trout streams: 1,900 miles

Trout stream improvements: 410 miles

Trout lakes rehabilitated: 134

Warm water lakes rehabilitated: 79

Average number of fish stocked per year:

Walleye Fry - 250 million
Walley Fingerlings - 2.5 million
Walleye Yearlings - 50 thousand
Walleye Adults - 30 thousand
Northern Pike (fry,fingerlings & adults) - 1.2 million
Muskellunge (fingerlings) - 30,000
Largemouth Bass - 7,500 (fingerlings and adults)
Channel Catfish - 100,000 (fingerlings and yearlings)
Bluegill - 40,000 adults
Tiger Muskellunge (fingerlings) - 2,000
Trout - 2.3 million (fingerlings and yearlings)

Fish hatcheries: 5 coldwater ( trout and salmon), 12 cool and warm water (walleye, muskie, catfish, etc.)

Walleye rearing ponds used annually (on average): 325

Northern pike spawning areas used annually (on average): 10

Harvest

Sport Fish Harvested:
Walleye - 35 million pounds
Northern Pike - 3.2 million pounds
Panfish - 64 million pounds

The most caught fish:
1st: Panfish
2nd: Walleye
3rd: Northern

Record fish:
See check the current state record fish list.

Sport fishing expenditures in Minnesota: $1.58 billion

Commercial fish harvested: 3.5 million pounds

Minnow industry:
Minnow dealers: 283
Minnow retailers: 832

Licenses

Licenses sold in 2009

Conservation Individual Angling 14,212
Conservation Combination Angling 4,218
Annual Special Angling 18,523
Permanent Angling 1,060
24-Hour Angling 63,253
Resident Individual Angling 485,413
Resident Combination Angling 204,383
Resident Spear from Dark House 15,390
Resident White/Tubilee/Herring 666
Non-Resident Shelter 289
Non-resident 7 Day Shelter 145
Resident Dark House Shelter 48,751
Resident Dark House (Rental) 1,716
Non-Resident Individual Angling 56,470
Non-Resident Family Angling 29,094
Non-Resident 14 Day Couple Angling 22,845
Non-Resident 7 Day Angling 71,576
Non-Resident 72 Hour Angling 40,491
Trout Validation 89,701
Trout Validation and Stamp 6,858
Sturgeon Tag 2,484
Walleye Stamp Validation 1,827
Walleye Stamp Pictorial 3,635
Youth Angling 677
Resident Individual Sports 96,675
Resident Combination Sports 82,917
Lifetime Angling 3,758
Lifetime Sports 4,054
Nonres Lifetime Angling 25

Totals 1,371,106

Stamps

Trout stamp: 88,086
Trout stamp fulfilled: 10,318

Updated 2010