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Sep 3, 2024 · The agency includes both the National Wildlife Refuge System and the National Fish Hatchery System. The Service's origins date back to 1871 when Congress established the U.S. Fish Commission to study the decrease in the nation’s food fishes and recommend ways to reverse that decline. (More on our history below.)
4 days ago · The eggs are then hatched at the Warm Springs (Ga.) National Fish Hatchery before returning as fingerlings to the region’s waters. The Service and the tribe routinely electro-fish the rivers, including the Tuckasegee, to determine how their propagation efforts are faring.
Aug 27, 2024 · In 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added nearly 6,000 acres of public land to the National Wildlife Refuge System in Texas. This brings the total number of Service-managed lands in the state to nearly 700,000 acres at 21 National Wildlife Refuges and three National Fish Hatcheries.
4 days ago · STANLEY, Idaho – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Lower Snake River Compensation Plan program will implement an in-river project immediately downstream of the Sawtooth Fish Hatchery in the summer of 2024 that benefits both Chinook and sockeye salmon in the Upper Salmon River. The project will fill the scour hole at the Sawtooth fish weir approximately 6 miles south of Stanley, Idaho ...
4 days ago · This Inventory and Monitoring 7-Year Plan: 2013-2020 (7-Year Plan) outlines how the National Wildlife Refuge System (Refuge System) is implementing a nationally coordinated effort to support rigorous inventories and monitoring at the refuge, landscape, regional, and national scales.
6 days ago · This position is a Biological Science Technician (Fish), GS- 0404-6/7 working in Uvalde, TX for the R2-Uvalde National Fish Hatchery. This position is also open to status candidates under announcement R2-24-12534836-LAS-MP. You must apply to each announcement separately if you wish to be considered under both recruitment methods.
4 days ago · The recovery plan is available for the pearl darter, a small fish listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This plan includes bringing the pearl darter back to the Pearl River system where it has not been for 50 years. “The main reason the pearl darter was listed as threatened was its extirpation from the Pearl River which greatly reduced the redundancy of the species and ...
