USFWS National Digital Library

- USFWS Employees in Raceways
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS);
- Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery employees in raceways.
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- Employees in Raceways
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS);
- Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery employees in the raceways
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- Transporting Buckets of Fertilized Eggs
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS); Biologists (USFWS); Work of the Service;
- The buckets of fertilized eggs are transported in this cart.
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- Chinook Salmon Waiting To Be Spawned
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Work of the Service;
- The Chinook salmon are held here after making their way up the elevator into the spawning room.
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- Female Chinook Being Spawned
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS); Biologists (USFWS); Work of the Service;
- The eggs are removed from the females and placed in a container. Each female Chinook has between 4,000-5,000 eggs.
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- Rinsing Eggs
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS); Biologists (USFWS); Work of the Service;
- The eggs are rinsed a final time.
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- Holding Area For Fertilized Eggs
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS); Biologists (USFWS); Work of the Service;
- The fertilized eggs are placed in these holding areas with an iodine solution, which kills bacteria.
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- Holding Room
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Work of the Service;
- The holding room at Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery where the eggs will live until they hatch.
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- Spawning Room
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS); Biologists (USFWS); Work of the Service;
- The spawning room at the Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery.
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- Inside Spring Creek Hatchery
- Fisheries management; Fishes; Fish hatcheries;
- The state of the art facility will spawn approximately 10,000 Tule Fall Chinook salmon this season.
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- Fish Ladder
- Fisheries management; Fishes; Fish hatcheries;
- This fish ladder leads directly from the Columbia River. Salmon returning from the Pacific Ocean travel hundreds of miles to reach the place of their birth. The salmon's sense of smell will lead them up the river, to the fish ladder and right back...
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- Fish Ladder
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes;
- This fish ladder leads directly from the Columbia River. Salmon returning from the Pacific Ocean travel hundreds of miles to reach the place of their birth. The salmon's sense of smell will lead them up the river, to the fish ladder and right back...
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- Fish and wildlife news: special issue on children and nature
- Connecting people with nature; Environmental education; Recreation
- This special edition of Fish & Wildlife News provides a glimpse of what Service employees from coast to coast are already doing to reconnect children with nature. From the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, where...
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- Tule Fall Chinook Females
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Work of the Service;
- Tule fall Chinook females being bled out. Without this step blood can fix with the eggs and prevent fertilization.
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- Removing Pre-smolts from Hatchery Raceways
- Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS); Service patch;
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees move (known as 'crowding' juvenile Tule Fall Chinook salmon to the end of a raceway, or "pond," where the fish will enter an opened raceway gate, swim down a Hatchery channel, and then out the...
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