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In 2023, nearly a million people visited national fish hatcheries and conservation offices across the country. These visitors came to us to catch their first fish, welcome salmon returning upriver to spawn, and become more deeply engaged in conservation. 992,805 - Visitors to FAC facilities.
Hatcheries can be a unique and powerful tool for wildlife conservation when they are used to recover wild populations and support sustainable recreational fisheries. 110 million – Fish released by national fish hatcheries. 81 million – Eggs transferred through the National Broodstock Program.
May 24, 2023 · Recreational angling from the stocking and release of around 100 million hatchery fish every year supports approximately*: $1.2 billion dollars in economic output. 12 thousand jobs. $88 million in federal tax revenue. $77 million in state and local tax revenue.
Sep 29, 2022 · The Green Mountain State’s five fish hatcheries have been releasing more than 1.5 million fish into the lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams that cover Vermont’s landscape, helping to create fisheries in places that otherwise would have none.
May 31, 2022 · To address plummeting fish stocks, the U.S. government has poured billions into a network of hatcheries to literally mass-produce fish. My task was to perform a first-of-its-kind...
Federal officials have propped up aging hatcheries despite their known failures, pouring more than $2.2 billion over the past 20 years into keeping them going instead of investing in new...
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.
