ALBANY -- Trout season is open in New York, and environmental officials have begun stocking state waters with millions of fish.

The Department of Environmental Conservation says it will stock 2.3 million catchable-sized brook, brown and rainbow trout in nearly 300 lakes and ponds and roughly 3,100 miles of streams. The agency says the stocking program will include some two-year-old brown trout averaging at least a foot long.

DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis marked opening day Tuesday at the Hoosic River north of Albany, where a spill of copper sulfate killed thousands of fish seven years ago.

Oak-Mitsui Inc. paid a $190,000 fine and funded the purchase of about 33 acres along the river, including nearly a mile of shoreline.

Grannis says the river has recovered.