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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.
Fishing Guide. 2024 Provisional Stocking Document for Trout and Inland Salmon (PDF) Fishing Passport. Hatchery Fish and Egg Request. Protocol for Requesting Trout or Fish Product (PDF) Protocol for Requesting Anadromous Fish or Fish Products (PDF) CDFW Hatchery Aquatic Invasive Species Protocol (PDF) NPDES and Water Quality Assurances (PDF ...
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- Federal Coleman National Fish Hatchery on Battle Creek
- State Oroville Feather River Fish Hatchery
- State American River Nimbus Hatchery
- State Mokelumne River Hatchery
- State Merced River Hatchery
- State San Joaquin Spring-Run Recovery Hatchery
- Federal Sacramento River Livingston-Stone Winter-Run Recovery Hatchery
- In Summary
The Coleman Hatchery released 11 million salmon to the Sacramento River and its major upper river tributary Battle Creek in 2019 (Figure 1). All but the 176,128 released to the Sacramento River near Redding were released at the hatchery into lower Battle Creek. All the fall-run were from brood year 2018 (spawned in fall 2018). The total late-fall-r...
The Feather River Fish Hatchery released 9 million salmon smolts to the Feather River and the Bay in 2019 (Figure 3). All of the nearly 2 million spring-run were released into the lower Feather River in March and April. Six million fall-run smolts were released to the Bay. One million fall-run were released into the lower Feather. Generally, all th...
The Nimbus Hatchery released 3.6 million fall-run salmon smolts to the American River and the Bay in 2019 (Figure 5). Approximately 2.2 million fall-run smolts were released to the Bay. Approximately 1.6 million fall-run were released into the lower American River (at Sunrise Boat Ramp). Generally, all the smolts were released under favorable condi...
The Mokelumne Hatchery released 6.6 million fall-run salmon smolts to the Mokelumne River, the west Delta, the Golden Gate, and the coast in 2019 (Figure 7). Approximately 4.5 million fall-run smolts were released to the west Delta near Sherman Island. Approximately 1.7 million smolts were released on the coast and near the Golden Gate5. The remain...
The Merced Hatchery released 0.7 million fall-run salmon smolts to the west Delta near Sherman Island (Figure 9). Conditions were marginal in terms of water temperature for the May 1 releases (Figure 10).
The Salmon Conservation and Research Facility Hatchery near Fresno released 212,000 spring-run salmon smolts into the San Joaquin River in 2019 (Figure 11). Generally, most of the smolts were released under favorable conditions. The late release on May 30, however was problematic with river temperatures (Figure 12) and Bay-Delta temperatures (Figur...
The Livingston Stone Hatchery near Redding released 408,000 winter-run salmon smolts to the Sacramento River and Battle Creek in winter 2019 (Figure 14). Smolts were released under favorable conditions. Salvage of these smolts at south Delta export facilities (Figure 15) indicates some degree of risk probably from being diverted to the south Delta ...
Hatchery salmon releases in wet year 2019 were generally made under favorable survival conditions. However, some releases were made under unfavorable conditions that were avoidable either by altering release timing or location, or by providing pulsed flows to support smolt migrations. Note that it will be several years before we see the adult retur...
The National Fish Hatchery System plays an important role in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s mission to conserve, protect, and enhance, fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats. National fish hatcheries use aquaculture to raise threatened, endangered, or at-risk species in a safe captive environment for eventual release into a natural setting ...
A few California hatcheries work to conserve and recover salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act, using methods such as captive propagation and production of fish that may be used for planned reintroduction efforts. Last updated by West Coast Regional Office on September 27, 2019. Salmon and steelhead hatchery programs.
The Mission of Department of Fish and Wildlife Trout and Inland Salmon Hatcheries and Stocking Programs is to provide fish for recreational angling and conservation purposes based on the best available science and ecological principles. California Department of Fish and Wildlife Strategic Plan for Trout and Inland Salmon Hatcheries, 2022-2032.
Since 2019 Willow Beach NFH staff have built outdoors new semi-recirculating systems utilizing previous raceways and added overtop circular tanks of various sizes – from 4ft up to 15ft in diameter.