Fish Technology Centers: Fish Technology Centers provide leadership in scientifically-based management of national fishery resources through development of new concepts and techniques to solve specific resource problems in aquatic restoration and recovery activities. There are only seven Fish Technology Centers nationwide. Within the Pacific Region, the Abernathy Fish Technology Center staff conduct applied research programs in behavioral physiology, nutrition, pathology, microbiology, genetics, and fish culture. Technical assistance is provided in these program areas, and in the fields of biostatistics and chemistry, to federal, state, tribal, recreational, and conservation entities. The major emphases of these programs are to: (1) assist in the "repositioning" of US Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Region, National Fish Hatcheries as tools in the conservation of natural populations; (2) examine the use of natural brood stocks by federal hatcheries to meet management objectives; and (3) promote and support captive propagation and management methods that result in healthy Pacific salmon, steelhead/rainbow trout, cutthroat and bull trout, and white sturgeon populations.
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