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There are four warm water facilities, that hatch and rear warm water species, like muskellunge, northern pike, striped bass, walleyes, catfish, largemouth bass, bluegill and redear sunfish. These warm water stations provide 2-5 million fish for annual stocking in Virginia waters.
- Wytheville Fish Hatchery
The Wytheville State Fish Hatchery is located at 1260 Red...
- Vic Thomas Fish Hatchery
Visit Vic Thomas Fish Hatchery. 125 Radio Road, Brookneal,...
- Marion Trout Hatchery
The Marion Fish Hatchery was built in the 1930s. The...
- Wytheville Fish Hatchery
The Montebello Fish Hatchery is located in western Nelson County, Virginia, in the community of Montebello. It is on the eastern crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The facility was built around 1930, and is one of the first state-run fish hatcheries in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
King and Queen Fish Hatchery (KQFH), established in 1939, is a DWR “warm water” facility located forty miles northeast of Richmond, Virginia in King and Queen County. When originally built, the facility’s main target species was largemouth bass.
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Virginia maintains five coldwater facilities (Marion, Paint Bank, Wytheville, Coursey Springs, Montebello) and four warmwater facilities (King & Queen, Front Royal, Buller, Vic Thomas) to grow fish for stocking in public waters Source: Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries - Geographic Information Systems, VDGIF Fish Hatcheries(as of Oct...
all remaining streams still supporting a wild trout population are in the Blue Ridge or Valley and Ridge physiographic provinces Source: Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries - Geographic Information Systems, Trout Waters(as of October 17, 2014)
walleye are collected from the New River, Staunton River, and South Holston Reservoir, raised at the Vic Thomas, King and Queen, and Buller Fish Cultural Stations, and stocked as fingerlings for recreation fishing in 17 locations Source: Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, 2022 Walleye and Saugeye Production & Stocking
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.
Coursey Springs is one of nine fish hatcheries operated by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Originally constructed in the 1960's this new state of the art facility draws water from the 3rd largest spring in the State of Virginia and produces about 500,000 catchable size trout (or 350,000 pounds).
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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.
