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Walleye, muskie and smallmouth bass fingerlings
- In recent years, the hatchery has focused on producing walleye, muskie and smallmouth bass fingerlings. The hatchery also serves as a distribution point for trout, catfish, and other species to the waters of northern and northwestern Virginia.
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The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources operates nine fish cultural stations around the state. These are categorized as either “rearing stations,” or “hatcheries.”. There are four warm water facilities, that hatch and rear warm water species, like muskellunge, northern pike, striped bass, walleyes, catfish, largemouth bass ...
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The Wytheville State Fish Hatchery is located at 1260 Red...
- Vic Thomas Fish Hatchery
The Hatchery maintains a total of 19.66 acres of earthen...
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The Marion Fish Hatchery was built in the 1930s. The...
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For the last dozen years or so, the types of fish most often...
- Wytheville Fish Hatchery
Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery. Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery is a 444-acre facility of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service located in the quiet rural setting of Virginia's historic tidewater plantation country.
You’ve got to hatch ‘em to catch ‘em! The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) maintains a robust network of fish hatcheries to keep Virginia’s waters teeming with rainbow, brook, and brown trout in addition to bluegill, redear sunfish, walleye, musky, crappie, saugeye, and striped bass.
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CSFCS is supplied by Coursey Spring, formally known as Meadow Lake prior to the 1960’s. Coursey Spring is reputed to be the 3rdlargest spring in the Commonwealth of Virginia with a peak output of 15,000 gpm. The flows and water temperature fluctuate seasonally due to influence from the nearby Cowpasture River. The Cowpasture River is a sinking stre...
Due to differences in weather from year to year the production at the CSFCS can vary. Depending on the weather and associated rainfall CSFCS has produced between 247,000 lbs. (FY11) and 137,000 lbs. (FY14). CSFCS is a grow-out facility and no spawning takes place. Fingerlings are supplied by the Wytheville FCS, Marion, FCS, and Paint Bank FCS. CSFC...
CSFCS is responsible for stocking 72 waters. CSFCS covers 11 counties: Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Fauquier, Frederick, Highland, Page, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Shenandoah, and Warren. CSFCS is also responsible for stocking 2 waters in the Urban Trout program that are located in the Cities of Hampton and Chesapeake respectively. CSFCS also assists the...
CSFCS participates in the Urban Trout Stocking program and has three waters in the Youth-Only Stocked Trout Program. CSFCS has three Heritage waters and stocks another Heritage water for Paint Bank for Heritage Day, Liberty Lake- Bedford County. CSFCS stocks four Delayed harvest and two Catch and Release waters. No spawning occurs at the facility. ...
CSFCS has 142 acres of creek side habitats, riparian buffers and open fields to catch a glimpse of the wildlife that call CSFCS home. Green and great blue herons can often be found wading in shallow waters, especially in the mornings. At dawn and dusk, night herons may be more common. Belted kingfisher and otter are common around the confluence of ...
Buller Fish Hatchery annually produces walleye, black crappie, muskellunge, and trout. Trout fingerlings are raised to advanced size and stocked in local streams. Approximately 20,000 advanced size trout are also produced and stocked for the Clinch Mountain Fee Fishing Area.
Virginia offers excellent, extremely diverse freshwater angling opportunities. Over 176,000 acres of public lakes and 27,300 miles of fishable streams provide every freshwater angler something. Tidal rivers for largemouth bass, striped bass, blue catfish and shad. Unsurpassed float fishing smallmouth bass rivers spread across the state.
