Workers have started the egg-taking process for salmon at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery. The ladder will be open for as long as needed to replenish the fish in the holding pool.

Taylor Lipscomb, the hatchery’s manager, reached into the cooler and lifted out a cup filled with orange salmon eggs, then handed it to one of the children.

Other fish eggs gathered this fall included wild Chinook salmon and hatchery-kept brown, brook and lake trout. Chinook salmon eggs were collected Oct. 1-16 at the Little Manistee River Weir in ...

The hatchery has capacity for about 500,000 salmon eggs. Any amount collected above that amount may be transferred to hatcheries in South Dakota and North Dakota. The small fish are released into ...

An estimated 842,709 salmon eggs were collected, which filled all available egg incubation jars and space at the Fort Peck Multispecies Fish Hatchery. This big female chinook salmon tipped the ...

Between 80 and 200 Chinook salmon spawn at Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Gold River each day from early November through this Friday, ending their life cycle with an ascent up the fish ladder to the ...

Since salmon cannot naturally reproduce in North Dakota, Game and Fish personnel capture the fish and transport them to Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery, where the eggs are harvested.

The hatchery is capable of transporting over 2 million salmon during the spring season. "A good portion of those are going on tanker vehicles and stopped all around the state.

Thompson State Fish Hatchery and Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery will receive 3.7 million of those eggs, while Ohio and Indiana each will each receive 400,000 eggs.

The coho salmon eggs were collected from Oct. 15 to Nov. 1 at the Platte River State Fish Hatchery Weir in Beulah, which is located southwest of Traverse City, according to the Department of ...