Mora National Fish Hatchery's Gila Trout Spawning Season
Mora National Fish Hatchery's Gila trout spawning season has ended in 2016 on a high note.
Biologists and volunteers spawned 560 pairs of Gila trout yielding 122,423 eyed-eggs. Given the expected high survival rate in the hatchery, the eggs should result in nearly 80,000 young trout that will be stocked in the wild in autumn, reaching five inches at stocking time. More than 10,000 Gila trout have already been stocked in 2016 into waters of the Gila National Forest.
