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The National Fish Hatchery System works to support healthy, self-sustaining populations of fish and other aquatic species across the country. Every year we raise and stock over 100 million fish to support the recovery and restoration of imperiled species, recreational fishing, and Tribal subsistence fisheries.
- National Fish Hatchery System Facilities
- The National Fish Hatchery System by The Numbers (2021).
- Where Do National Fish Hatchery System Fish Go?
- What Does The National Fish Hatchery System Raise?
- Learn More About Our Fish Stocking and Distributions.
In additional to a network of hatcheries, the National Fish Hatchery System operates 13 applied science facilities that assist fish production programs by advancing the fields of genetics, physiology, pathology, and nutrition. 1. 71 National Fish Hatcheries 2. 7 Fish Technology Centers 3. 6 Fish Health Centers 4. 1 Historic National Fish Hatchery 5...
Hatcheries can be a unique and powerful tool for wildlife conservation when they are used to recover wild populations and support sustainable recreational fisheries. 1. 110 million – Fish released by national fish hatcheries. 2. 81 million – Eggs transferred through the National Broodstock Program. 3. 16.6 million – Threatened or endangered wildlif...
Many states rely on aquaculture to stock lakes and rivers with fish populations for sustainable recreational fishing. The National Fish Hatchery System works closely with our state and Tribal partners to produce and stock fish using advanced genetic tools and techniques to maximize performance and to minimize negative impact on wild fish. 1. 106 mi...
National fish hatcheries support conservation by raising aquatic wildlife to recover federally listed threatened or endangered species, improve sustainable recreational fishing, support fisheries that have been impacted by a federal dam project, and prevent at-risk species from becoming endangered. 129 – Total number of species raised on national f...
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The 2019 report provides landings totals for both domestic recreational and com-mercial fisheries by species and allows us to track important indicators such as annual seafood consumption and the productivity of top fishing ports.
The following table contain all taxonomic groups, all species including Distinct Population Segments (DPS) and Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESU) and all life stages (adults, juveniles, and eggs) for all species that were distributed in Fiscal Year 2021.
May 20, 2021 · According to the Fisheries of the United States, 2019 report, U.S. commercial fishermen landed 9.3 billion pounds valued at $5.5 billion in 2019. In our recreational fisheries, U.S. anglers took more than 187 million trips in 2019. These recreational anglers caught more than 950 million fish and released 64 percent of those caught.
May 31, 2022 · Grouped by production year and hatchery, the data seemed perfect for revealing how well each of the 29 publicly funded facilities was doing in its goal of breeding fish that could make it to...
facilities like Cole M. Rivers Hatchery with a 2019 production of 467,957 pounds of fish, to small facilities like Fall River Hatchery with a 2019 production of 19,057 pounds of fish (see Table 3 – Pounds of Fish Raised at ODFW Facilities in 2019).
