Had the opportunity to visit the fish hatchery just outside of North Bay with our good friend.
He told us so much info it was hard to remember everything, but I’ll give it a go
The hatchery was built in the early 1960’s and is till the same production and no automation at all. From the time they receive the eggs to the time they release them took 16-18 months depending on the species
When the eggs arrive they still use the old method of counting. Depending on the species they will place eggs together in a line over 12” in a trough (piece of angle iron) to determine how many eggs in a liter. See picture.
Seen the process from incubation up to release and the water system that it needs. It takes 3,312,000 lt/24hrs to over every day.
There was no walleye in the tanks just Brown trout and splake. In the fry tanks there were approx 26,000 and 10 tanks before move over to the other building with cement tanks. He scooped up some brown trout in the net for us. They will be taken out to other lakes in mid May.
He told us so much info it was hard to remember everything, but I’ll give it a go
The hatchery was built in the early 1960’s and is till the same production and no automation at all. From the time they receive the eggs to the time they release them took 16-18 months depending on the species
When the eggs arrive they still use the old method of counting. Depending on the species they will place eggs together in a line over 12” in a trough (piece of angle iron) to determine how many eggs in a liter. See picture.
Seen the process from incubation up to release and the water system that it needs. It takes 3,312,000 lt/24hrs to over every day.
There was no walleye in the tanks just Brown trout and splake. In the fry tanks there were approx 26,000 and 10 tanks before move over to the other building with cement tanks. He scooped up some brown trout in the net for us. They will be taken out to other lakes in mid May.