Ft. Peck State Fish Hatchery, Ft. Peck, Montana
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N 48° 01.163 W 106° 26.831
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Passed in 1999, House Bill 20 authorized a Warm Water Sport Fish Surcharge and a multi-species hatchery for the State of Montana to be located at Fort Peck. The visitors center is open 7am-4pm Monday through Friday and 8am-5pm Saturday and Sunday.
Waymark Code: WMFKQQ
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 10/31/2012
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The Fort Peck Hatchery is owned by the Army Corps of Engineers but staffed and operated by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.
Opened in the spring of 2006, this facility is capable of rearing a wide variety of warm and cool water fish including walleye, northern pike, chinook salmon, and pallid sturgeon.
The facility has 64 rearing tanks and incubation capapcity for up to 125 million walleye eggs and 500,000 chinook salmon eggs. Forty outdoor ponds are used in the spring and summer for raising fingerling warmwater fish, and 8 concrete raceways are used for rearing fall released chinook salmon. With a staff of only four, this hatchery is capapble of producing millions of fish for the state of Montana.
Type of Facility: Fish Hatchery
Management Agency: State/Provincial Government
Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]
Has a Vistor Center: yes
Offers Tours: yes
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