North Attleboro
North Attleboro, MA 02760-4749
Plan Your Visit
Visit our hatchery and come face to face with the region's underwater friends, explore our nature trail, and come see the beautiful pollinator garden that our local community planted for us. There is a lot to do and see at our hatchery so head over and check us out Monday through Saturday!
Activities
The North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery is proud to showcase our native plant garden, nature trail, and fishing pond within the station property. Designed and planted in 2010, the gardens use naturescapes principles – all of which you can use in your own gardens at home.
We encourage visitors to spend time in the gardens, enjoying their beauty and learning more about the value and importance of native plants, in particular the role and connection they have with pollinators. Pollinators, such as most bees and some birds, bats, and other insects, play a crucial role in flowering plant reproduction and in the production of most fruits and vegetables.
Tours
We provide tours of the hatchery facilities on weekdays with advanced planning—please call (508) 695-5002 to schedule a tour. Tours typically run 45 minutes.
Trails
The North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery nature trail is an 0.8 mile lightly traveled loop that provides great views of the Bungay River and local wildlife.
North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery is located at 144 Bungay Road in North Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts (41®59’50”N and 71®17’07”W). The hatchery is approximately 0.5 miles from the intersection of Bungay Road and Route 152/Kelly Boulevard.
Activities
Featured Species
Get Involved
Whether you want to further conservation, learn more about nature, or share your love of the outdoors, you’ve come to the right place. National fish hatcheries provide many opportunities for you to help your community and fish and wildlife by doing what you love.
National fish hatcheries partner with volunteers, youth groups, landowners, neighbors and residents of both urban and rural communities to make a lasting difference. There are opportunities for everyone to get involved!
Volunteers: Gain new experiences and meet new people while helping to advance fish and aquatic conservation.
Friends: Join neighbors in helping hatcheries work effectively in our communities.
Local Groups: Find out how communities can work with hatcheries to conserve our shared natural resources.
Youth: Explore paid and unpaid opportunities to learn and develop leadership skills.
Services
The North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery works to restore American shad. Our hatchery also provides hatchery-raised brook trout to state partners to support local recreational fishing opportunities. We raise three year classes of eastern brook trout, from the Sandwich strain of brook trout, and distribute these trout to the state of Massachusetts for recreational fishing programs. We also raise these brook trout for the National Broodstock Program to ensure brook trout are readily available for valued recreational fishing programs.
About
North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery is a 235-acre facility in eastern Massachusetts that has been rearing fish for New England since 1950. The site features an interpretive nature trail, plant and pollinator gardens, and a fishing pond for visitors to enjoy. Currently, the hatchery focuses on restoring American shad and brook trout for regional waterways and local fishing events.