Fishy post

I am way behind on posting photos! Here are some from a tour we took of the Sport Fish Hatchery. This is where they breed salmon, grayling, char, trout, and other local fish and release them into local lakes and ponds for sport fishing. None of them are released into rivers, nor are intended to breed in the wild.

When you first walk into the Visitor Center, you see examples of half-grown fishies swimming round and round in this beautiful tank:


The terminology they use for one stage of the fish life is, "when they have eyed up". LOL!


There are tanks for each species, and tanks for different stages of life. At this point (falltime), there were only very young fishies:


There is quite a purification and circulation system!


And active monitoring of water quality, temperature, flow rates, etc:


In each tank, the young fishies swim round and round:


This is how they deposit fishies into their new tanks when they are moved:


The fishies gather at the zero flow point:


Round and round and round they go!


This is the vehicle they use to release the fishies to their final destinations: lakes and ponds all over Interior Alaska!


Only some of the tanks have nets. Some species are liable to leap, and others are not: