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North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery
Working with partners to restore migratory fish to Central New England Watersheds.
Central NE Fishery
Resources Complex		 Central NE Fishery
Resources Office		 Nashua
National Fish Hatchery		 Laconia Office
of Fishery Assistance
 

Photo of walkway and interpretive signs - Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery supports Atlantic salmon restoration programs in southern New England. The Connecticut and Merrimack rivers salmon programs transfer sea-run adults after spawning (kelts) to the North Attleboro NFH for reconditioning every fall. This process involves training the salmon to feed so these fish will continue to spawn and make contributions to fry production. Typically, female kelts produce about two million eggs that are incubated at this and other hatcheries for fry stocking programs. The hatchery also incubates sea-run and domestic broodstock eggs for the Merrimack River (NH/MA), Pawcatuck River (RI), and New Hampshire coastal rivers restoration programs.


Photo of Atlantic salmon eggs in bowls - Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Photo of biologists collecting eggs during spawning - Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery
144 Bungay Road
North Attleboro, MA 02760
Phone: (508) 695-5002
Fax: (508) 695-5098
E-Mail: FW5FR_NANFH@fws.gov

Deaf/Hard of Hearing individuals may reach the North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery through the Massachusetts Relay Service:

1-800-439-2370 (TTY / ASCII)
1-800-439-0183 (voice).


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