Green Lake National Fish Hatchery

Images from Green Lake National Fish Hatchery


An aerial view of the Green Lake National Fish Hatchery. At the top of the photo you can see Green Lake, the water supply source for the Hatchery. At the bottom right is Graham Lake.	The Green Lake National Fish Hatchery in the winter. The large building to the left is the main facility, the portion closest is the broodstock facility and the section jutting out is the administration portion of the facility. To the extreme right are the outdoor tanks.	This photo shows one of the 20-foot outdoor tanks where smolt and parr are held.	The Fry Nursery is within the main building and houses fry salmon.

The view here is of the tagging station, looking toward the broodstock facility.	The Maintenance Shop at Green Lake NFH	The Laboratory at GLNFH	Historic photo - The spawning house located at the mouth of Great Brook. The trout and salmon holding pens are seen.

Pictured is Rocky Pond which served as the water supply for Green Lake Hatchery. The sluiceway carried water to the spawning house nearly a mile downstream. This original site was active from 1891 to 1923, two years after Mr. Charles G. Atkins' death. Charles' wife Nellie lived to the 1930's.


Green Lake National Fish Hatchery Staff picking eggs (sorting through eggs to select the viable ones from the culls)	Green Lake NFH Staff grading the salmon to force larger fish to the center of the metal screens smaller fish swim through the screens to the open pool area.	Green Lake Staff on the annual Team Building retreat, 2002	Green Lake NFH Animal Caretaker, Keith Boyer on GLNFH distribution truck holding an adult Atlantic salmon to be released during stocking season.

Green Lake NFH Animal Caretaker, Marion Baron picks eggs in the incubation room.


An adult male Atlantic salmon	Spawning an Atlantic salmon	Staff at Green Lake pick eggs in an incubation tray.	A hatched egg note the nutrient filled sack on the fry’s fry's tummy - the sac stores its food supply for weeks.

Testing a section of the salmon population for disease prior to distribution in the spring	Salmon being prepared for tagging	An Atlantic salmon parr see the parr marks on the side of the fish?	Staff holding an Atlantic salmon smolt