GREENE – Allen Pond residents and town officials are not giving up on efforts to have their pond stocked with trout again.

They will need to find a new way for the public to get boats in the pond if they hope to have a fresh supply of trout delivered next fall.

“The fish are a public resource, and if the public doesn’t have some way to get to the water, we don’t stock the pond,” said Steve Wilson, superintendent of hatcheries for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Wilson confirmed that he canceled the order for 200 brown trout this fall. The 14-inch yearlings would have been stocked in Allen Pond in October.

Fishing on the pond will suffer without them, especially during the upcoming ice-fishing season, said Town Manager Stephen Eldridge.

“There are some trout in it, and some bass and pickerel,” Eldridge said. “It’s a very clear, clean, cold-water lake, so it’s very conducive to trout. But it needs to be stocked.”

The lake lost its sole public-use dock last summer. New owners of Allen Pond Campground plan to develop the land and limit the boat launch there to private use.

“We’re trying to find a solution,” Eldridge said. The town has formed a Conservation Committee to look for new boat launches. It is also reviewing state laws to see just how much public access they need to provide.

“We have a carry-in, carry-out access off of Thomas Road,” Eldridge said. That launch, on the east side of the pond, has parking for two cars and a place for anglers to carry in a small boat.

“But there’s no room for a boat trailer, or a bunch of cars,” Eldridge said. The state requires parking for as many as five trucks and trailers, he said.

“It’s unfortunate for the people that live there, as well as the people that regularly use it for trout and ice fishing,” Eldridge said.