1.__Information.__Information and interpretation leading to rule proposals including alternative proposals that staff have considered but not proposed;

2.__Assessment of biological potential.__An assessment of the biological potential of the waters affected and management goals for those waters, including the best scientific judgment of the probable outcome and the probability of success of the plan relating to the management of brook trout and landlocked salmon; and

3.__Assessment of ability to evaluate success.__A realistic assessment of the ability of fisheries staff to evaluate success of the management through future surveys.

§12758.__Fish stocking

1.__Public comments.__When the Bureau of Resource Management determines that there is a need to consider changing the long- term management objectives on a water or group of waters that supports a major fishery or major fisheries, the department shall provide information regarding the proposed change to any person at that person's request.__The bureau shall conduct department- sponsored meetings to solicit public comments on those management objectives.

2.__Department-sponsored meetings.__Regional fisheries biologists must be available at department-sponsored meetings held pursuant to subsection 1 to review the management opportunities presented by the proposals to change long-term management objectives, as well as the information used to assess the opportunities, and to receive public comments concerning the proposals.

§12759. Stocking alewives

1.__Prohibition.__A person may not stock alewives in Hogan Pond or Whitney Pond in the Town of Oxford or any waters that drain into or out of those ponds.