Featured Species
The primary mission of the Williams Creek facility is the rearing of the threatened Apache trout, and is the only facility in the nation to have a captive breeding population of Apache trout. Williams Creek also receives brook, brown and rainbow trout eggs from broodstock broodstock
The reproductively mature adults in a population that breed (or spawn) and produce more individuals (offspring or progeny).
Learn more about broodstock hatcheries around the country. Approximately 1.5 million fish are produced annually at Williams Creek National Fish Hatchery.
