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Mar 25, 2021 · RALEIGH, N.C. (March 25, 2021) – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open approximately 900 miles of Hatchery Supported Trout Waters at 7 a.m. on April 3. The season will run through Feb. 28, 2022.
We're open to the public Monday through Friday from 8:00 am - 3:30 pm. To schedule a tour, please call the Hatchery at 509-538-2755 or the Columbia Gorge Information and Education Office at 509-493-2934. Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery is located on the scenic Little White Salmon River and Drano Lake.
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- The Hatchery Crutch: How We Got Here
- A Brief History
- Salmon Enhancement
- Restoring Salmon Population
Across much of the Pacific Northwest of North America, salmon populations are struggling. An array of modern plagues—development, pollution, logging, overfishing—has decimated habitats, leaving fish gasping for oxygen, searching in vain for egg-friendly gravel, and swimming into concrete barriers as they return to their home rivers and streams. And...
Almost a century ago, a Canadian scientist revealed that hatcheries were, at best, failed experiments and, at worst, monuments to delusional thinking. In the early 1920s, fisheries biologist Russell Earl Foerster arrived at Cultus Lake, which drains into the lower Fraser River in British Columbia, to run a salmon hatchery built by the province ten ...
In 1974, Peter Larkin, the first provincial fisheries biologist in British Columbia, wrote an influential essay, “Play It Again, Sam—An Essay on Salmon Enhancement,” that’s equal parts enthusiastic and skeptical. Larkin spells out the foibles humans might bring to hatcheries and other means of boosting fish populations: the lack of continuity in re...
Salmon Nation finds itself in a predicament with no clear way forward. Here we are today, with an upended environment, too many fish, and not enough habitat. But we have the grim duty to look around, take our bearings, and say, “Well, where do we go from here?” As Larkin wrote, clear goals are important. Restoring salmon populations requires a thou...
The hatchery is open to the public during normal working hours, 8a.m. - 4p.m., on weekdays. For more information, write to Armstrong State Fish Hatchery, 3336 Armstrong Creek Road, Marion, N.C. 28752 or call 828-756-4179. Return to Top. Marion State Fish Hatchery (McDowell County) Watch on.
Sep 27, 2019 · I look forward to seeing the impact these improvements will have on the facility, which truly is the NYS DEC’s flagship hatchery. In the meantime, the hatchery is now open to the public, with self-guided tours and tours for groups, which can be arranged in advance.
A public and private partnership to support the “stewards of the Chinook River watershed and tidal lands”. Sea Resources is executing on an ambitious agenda to restore the state’s first salmon hatchery program, continuing its efforts in Lower Columbia River salmon habitat enhancement, tidal waters management, conservation and education.
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s “House of Salmon” Hatchery was constructed and tasked with supporting the Elwha River Fisheries and Ecosystem Restoration Act (EREFRA)- Public Law 102-495, passed by Congress in 1992. The Act calls for the recovery of anadromous fish species and the restoration of the Elwha River Ecosystem following the removal of the Elwha and the Glines Canyon dams on ...
