The Lamar Fish Health Center located in Lamar, PA at the Northeast Fishery Center works to prevent the spread of aquatic diseases and keep our wild and hatchery fish healthy. In doing so, we help maintain healthy ecosystems across the Great Lakes to the Atlantic coast, and into the Ohio and Tennessee River basins. Our experts implement the Service’s Wild Fish Health Survey and work to forecast new emerging diseases, and prevent outbreaks in the United States.
About Us
The Lamar Fish Health Center works closely with regional aquatic animal health experts and university researchers, and with state and federal fish and wildlife agencies to prevent the inadvertent spread of disease organisms through release and transfers of fish across state, regional, and international boundaries.
What We Do
Lamar Fish Health Center experts provide services in pathogen detection and isolation, disease diagnosis, and provide recommendations for treatment, infection control, and maintaining biosecurity. They also provide recommendations on fish culture practices to support health of hatchery-raised fish
Our Organization
Latest News
Fisheries crews across the Great Lakes basin are gearing up for another season of lake trout stocking. Over a two-month period, millions of lake trout carefully reared year-round in national fish hatcheries will finally make their way back to their home waters. A comeback for lake trout was half a...
Habitat Restoration
With the arrival of spring, we're working with our partners to prepare for our annual lake sturgeon egg takes, one facet of a 40-year-old restoration program that relies on reintroducing fish as its cornerstone. Our efforts in the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi River basins are at the heart of a...
Our Partners
By working on declining species early, we have the best chance to help them before they need the regulatory protections of the Endangered Species Act.
The agency's Aquatic Animal Drug Approval Partnership program collects data and conducts research to aid in the Food and Drug Administration’s aquatic drug approval process. It is the only program in the United States which is dedicated to obtaining safe and effective medications to improve fish...
Wildlife Management
Just like in human populations, fish diseases can emerge and spread naturally, or they can be unintentionally spread from one population of fish to another. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s fish health centers have launched a new tool to help in the fight to protect wild fisheries.