Two bodies of water in Southern Manitoba have been stocked with Walleye fry.

Volunteers with the Mound Wildlife Association at Pilot Mound helped put more than one million fry into Rock Lake and Goudney Reservoir.

There's no real data on how many fish are in the reservoir but officials hope by adding the Walleye fry it will help boost fish stocks.

“We helped Manitoba Fisheries stock the reservoir and Rock Lake,” said Wildlife Association member Travis Saban.

Those two bodies of water are usually stocked every year or two to try and help bring the fish population up. “The Walleye fry are really small about half the size of a fingernail and the survival rate on those is only one or two percent.”

Saban says the fry get eaten by other fish and it takes time for the surviving fish to grow.

It believed Rock Lake has lots of fish but not so for the Goudney Reservoir. “At this point, we are really unsure how many fish are in the reservoir and we are going to be working with fisheries later on in the summer to try and do a fish count," said Saban.

The wildlife group wants to improve stocks at the reservoir as it works to get more youth out to fish.

The re-stocking included the dumping of 100,000 fry into the Goudney Reservoir and 1.5 million into Rock Lake.

Three volunteers helped with the re-stocking program. “The fry come in a large plastic bag. You set the bag into the water to acclimatize the bag to where the fish are going. You want the water temperatures to be similar. You open the bag and mix the water together and let the fry go into the lake.”