Iowa's hatcheries busy preparing new crop of fish - Radio Iowa

Iowa's hatcheries busy preparing new crop of fish - Radio Iowa

Spring is spawning season and Iowa’s fish hatcheries are working to grow the fish to fill lakes across the state. Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery Manager Kim Hawkins says they were very successful in collecting the northern pike needed this year. “Within one night, we had over 130 fish in one net, so we caught plenty,” […]

Apollo Beach hatchery could release up to a million fish per year - Bay Soundings

Any fisherman will tell you that getting out on the water doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll come home with fish. It takes knowledge, the right tackle and patience. The same is true for successfully releasing fish from a hatchery. It takes expertise, sophisticated equipment, and patience to build a 10,000-square-foot hatchery and then to know how

Iowa Hatcheries in the midst of busy season

(Radio Iowa) – Spring is spawning season and Iowa’s fish hatcheries are working to grow the fish to fill lakes across the state. Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery Manager Kim Hawkins says they were very successful in collecting the northern pike needed this year. “Within one night, we had over 130 fish in one net, so we caught plenty,” she says. Hawkins says it took them six nights last year to catch the same number of fish. The extract the eggs from th…