NY State Salmon River Fish Hatchery

Yesterday we took Matthew and Meredith to another, bigger, fish hatchery. This particular one bred Coho Salmon and Chinook Salmon for the Salmon River, which is one of the biggest rivers for fisherman, mainly fly fisherman, to come fish at in the country. It was interesting to discover how they breed the salmon and Matthew of course loved to see all of the fish.

In just one of those tanks there are anywhere from 25,000-50,000 salmon

The Spawn House, where they process the fish eggs and weed out the dead ones, etc

The fence in the Salmon River so the fish are forced to swim into the hatchery for breeding

What would be a day of looking at fish without fishing! The Bean was more than thrilled to throw in his line

This is a video of the fish jumping into the upper tank. There are some huge fish and it was interesting to watch them jump