Injecting Colorado Pikeminnow at Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery, circa 1976

Two persons standing in a fisheries tank or pool, with the water nearly up to their waists, with the man on the left using a syringe to inject the fish being held by the man on the right. Both are wearing rubber wading overalls/trunks, and the man on the right is wearing a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service uniform shirt. In the water between them in the foreground is a container or net of some kind. One of the retaining walls of the pool is behind them.
Photo By/Credit

Peter J. Carboni

Date Shot/Created
Circa 1976
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Original caption: Injecting female Colorado Pikeminnow with chorionic gonadotropin to help induce spawning. Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery, Arizona, c. 1976.
Facility
Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery
Species
Ptychocheilus lucius
Subject tags
Employees (USFWS)
Fish hatcheries
Fisheries
Fisheries management
Fishes
History
Work of the Service