Fingerling red drum harvested and ready to be stocked into the wild.

Two hands holding very small juvenile red drum fish with a net full in the background

Photo By/Credit

Gena Lyons/USFWS

Date Shot/Created

03/24/2022

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Image

These juvenile red drum are about 30 days old and harvested from the hatchery's earth ponds. The fingerlings are then stocked into the wild.

Facility

Bears Bluff National Fish Hatchery

Ecosystem

Marine

Species

Sciaenops ocellatus

Subject tags

Agriculture

Fish hatcheries

Fisheries management

Marine fish

Sport fishing

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