Source: Indiana Department of Natural Resources
About $310,000 of the more than $6 million White River recovery project was spent on fish restocking. According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, about 1.15 million fish from 13 species were used to fill the void left by the death of 4.26 million fish during the 1999 White River fish kill:
Species Number of fish
Sauger 383,298
Chan. cat: 328,429
Bluegill 204,743
L. mo. bass 123,988
S. mo. bass 58,471
Rock bass 41,673
Crappie 3,956
Flathead cat 2,352
Fresh. drum 139
S.H. redhorse 86
B.M. buffalo 34
Red. sunfish 23
TOTAL 1,147,192
