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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.
Hatcheries and Stocking (Public Waters) Fish hatcheries are an important component of freshwater fisheries management in North Carolina. The Wildlife Resources Commission uses hatchery-reared fish for a variety of purposes, including enhancing existing fisheries and establishing new populations. Each year, Commission staff stocks approximately ...
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- The Hatchery Crutch: How We Got Here
- A Brief History
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- 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...
Mar 25, 2021 · RALEIGH, N.C. (March 25, 2021) – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open approximately 900 miles of Hatchery Supported Trout Waters at 7 a.m. on April 3. The season will run through Feb. 28, 2022.
Weekly Hatchery Supported Stocking Schedule All stocking dates listed are subject to change without notice due to unexpected events, such as snow. July, August, and September
Jun 24, 2021 · Until the ban was lifted June 18, only fishing-access parking was allowed at state hatcheries such as South Santiam just east of Sweet Home, Cedar Creek near Hebo and Salmon River near Otis.
Dec 19, 2023 · The hatchery is open to the public from April 1 to Nov. 30, weather permitting. For more information, contact the hatchery by calling 315-298-5051.
