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- The hatchery grounds are open to the public every day of the year (no overnight parking or camping).
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The hatchery grounds are open to the public every day of the year (no overnight parking or camping). A self-guided tour brochure (English, Spanish) will help guide you around the hatchery grounds and trails.
We are 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. Learn More About Visiting. Latest News.
The hatchery is open to the public daily (including holidays), 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Adult Chinook salmon begin returning to Battle Creek in September and large numbers of salmon are gathered at the barrier weir by late-September and early-October.
- 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 Buller Fish Hatchery near Sugar Grove annually produces northern pike muskellunge, smallmouth bass, and walleyes, as well as 50,000 trout. Trout used to stock Clinch Mountain WMA (Big Tumbling Creek) and Crooked Creek fee-fishing areas are produced year-round. Intensive rearing of muskellunge and northern pike is underway from April through ...
Sep 19, 2023 · The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is opening the doors to the Salmon River Fish Hatchery for public tours on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The hatchery is the state’s...
The Salmon River Fish Hatchery is located on County Route 22, one mile northeast of the Village of Altmar, Oswego County. The hatchery is open to the public roughly April 1st to November 30th (weather permitting - call the hatchery for the official opening & closing dates), 8:30 am to 3:30 pm daily.
