Joe Hogan Fish Hatchery - Lonoke, AR
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N 34° 46.104 W 091° 54.590
15S E 599761 N 3847901
One of the world's largest working fish hatcheries annually produces catfish, large mouth bass, bream, crappie, striped bass and hybrid striped bass.
Waymark Code: WM9HN5
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 08/23/2010
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The standard fish currently reared at the hatchery are warm-water species that include largemouth bass, bluegill bream, redear bream, crappie, channel catfish, blue catfish, and white amur. Over the years, the hatchery has experimented with raising species such as small mouth bass, walleye, saugeye, striped bass, striped bass hybrids, hybrid bream, Israeli carp, buffalo, and paddlefish. The hatchery produces approximately three to four million fish annually for Arkansas’s public lakes and streams. In addition to stocking public waters, the hatchery provides some species of fry and fingerling fish for the other three warm-water state fish hatcheries and for other state conservation agencies. The hatchery also provides over 250,000 eight-inch catfish to the Pot Shoals Net Pens on Bull Shoals Lake and the Jim Collins Net Pens on Lake Ouachita, which are also owned and operated by the AGFC. These facilities grow the catfish to a larger size to stock area lakes.
--from The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
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