Michigan State University spearheads ongoing sturgeon research; the Michigan Department of Natural Resources provides habitat restoration, policy, and regulation; the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians held an inaugural release in 2013 of 3,500 lake sturgeon from the first northern tribal
fish hatchery into the species' legacy watershed; and Sturgeon for Tomorrow promotes advocacy and education surrounding the plight of lake sturgeon.
ISI Executive Director Bill Bertera says, "The William Jack Hernandez Sport
Fish Hatchery provides a great fit for the first-ever ISI Envision project award.
Results of this study will assist hatchery personnel at Dexter National
Fish Hatchery and Technology Center and other hatcheries in development of cost-effective protocols to manage ponds for desirable phytoplankton, zooplankton, and macro-invertebrates, to determine optimum densities for stocking fish, and to minimize supplementation of formulated feed.
The monitoring and management of Warm Springs National
Fish Hatchery demonstrates a cooperative, sustainable program, integrating the need for both harvest and wild fish conservation.
1 -- 2 -- color -- ran in Valley edition only) At left, sac fries - baby trout living off of feed sacks in their bellies - are brought into the Fillmore
Fish Hatchery by the hundreds of thousands every year.
In 2002, the Tupelo Garden Club and the community celebrated the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the
Fish Hatchery with festivities including a visit from U.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to determine if there is a relationship between acoustic neuroma and
fish hatchery work.
The Service's Pendills Creek and Jordan River National Fish Hatcheries in Michigan, along with Iron River National
Fish Hatchery in northern Wisconsin supply and help stock an average of two million lake trout into Lake Michigan each year.
On the evening of 7 September 1993, an adult male Rafinisque's bigeared bat, Plecotus rafinesquii, was captured in a mist net at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) inactive
fish hatchery in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.
Coors Pure Water 2000 campaign and South Dakota distributors have donated an additional $15,000 to the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Foundation to improve Blue Dog Lake State
Fish Hatchery, located near Waubay.
Also planned are an aquarium and nature conservatory adjacent to the Municipal
Fish Hatchery, as well as a Great Lakes water park.
Two years later, in 1881, the state's first
fish hatchery, Barton Springs, was built for propagation of the then popular "German carp.
