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small window DECEMBER 2005
USFWS's Montana Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance Office, located on the grounds of the Bozeman Fish Technology Center.

Where medicine, fishery management merge grounds in Bozeman, Mont., were once home to Dr. James Henshall; those same grounds are now home to the USFWS' Aquatic Animal Drug Approval Partnership program and the Bozeman Fish Technology Center ... More >>

Texas Blind Salamander: Photo Credit by John Abbott

San Marcos National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center maintains refugium for four federally-endangered and two threatened species: Texas wild rice, Texas blind salamanders (left), fountain darters, Comal Springs riffle beetles, San Marcos salamanders and the Devils ... More >>

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small window NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2005
Assistant Director Dr. Mamie Parker

Hall of Fame Induction

Dr. Mamie Parker is a woman of many firsts. Dr. Parker has been called “an uncommon woman in uncommon places.” She is the first Arkansan to rise to the level of Assistant Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the first ... More >>

Greer's Ferry crew with Dr. Mamie parker

Greers Ferry National Fish Hatchery

The work of Greers Ferry National Fish Hatchery exemplifies the synergy and cohesiveness – the very reason it’s part of the national fish hatchery system. This mitigation hatchery, though already 41 years old, is a youngster compared to... More >>

 

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small window OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2005
Stripping eggs from lake trout

Sullivan Creek National Fish Hatchery

The Sullivan Creek National Fish Hatchery, a substation of the Pendills Creek National Fish Hatchery, is situated in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, approximately 30 miles west of Sault Ste. Marie, in the middle of the Hiawatha National Forest. Originally built in 1933 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the hatchery provided several trout species to nearby forest streams. The hatchery was shut down in 1946 due to ... More >>

Crystal Anderson spawning lake trout

 

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small window SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2005

John Coll, Fish Health Biologist with Atlantic salmon.

Up Close and Personal with Craig Brook NFH and Green Lake NFH Complex (Maine)

Annual spawning of endangered Atlantic salmon at Craig Brook NFH occurs from about the last week of October thru late November. Spawning some 2-3,000 fish from six endangered broodstocks (multiple year classes on station) -- plus several hundred Penobscot adults that were captured at the Veazie Dam this past summer. It's an all-consuming event!

(Top left) John Coll, Fish Health Biologist with Atlantic salmon.

(Bottom left) Green Lake NFH, grading and moving Atlantic salmon.

Green Lake NFH, grading and moving Atlantic salmon

 

 

Greenback Cutthroat Trout

The threatened greenback cutthroat trout once stared extinction in the face. It is native only to the waters of the Arkansas and upper South Platte rivers in Colorado, and a tiny part of Wyoming. More >>

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small window AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2005
Mamie Parker and FOX Holly Morris
National Fishing and Boating Week Kicks Off
Highlight Video (Windows Media format, 6.2 MB) Learn More ESPN Article by Assistant Director for Fisheries and Habitat Conservation Mamie Parker

 

Harrison Lake NFH
A Visit to Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery - National Fishing & Boating Week Event
Video Feature

On September 1, 1872 Livingston Stone’s hatching-works on California’s McCloud River became the first National Fish Hatchery and remained in operation until 1937. Today the facility lies entombed in a watery grave below Lake Shasta.

 

 
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