Ring Wood Fish Hatchery

[skeeter]

after we did the fish lift we were invited back to the hatchery, to see what happens after they take the eggs out.

they start with fertilizing the eggs and then they are put into the incubating trays

 

then put into these huge tanks to grow

 

thousands of them

 

these are the coho's

 

these are the chinook's

 

there food has to be carefully measured

 

to the exact grams for each tank and size of fingerlings

 

the food is then put into 2 fully automatic feeders for each tank

 

once they reach the right size which is about a year old, they then get released into lake ontario in several different locations.

they release 750,000 chinook and 50,000 coho's every year.

 

daniel & I would like to thank everyone from ring wood for showing us what kind of work goes into restocking our lakes.

it was an experience that was so good we are going back again easter friday to do it all over again.

[GBW]

Great pic's. I have to take the kid's out there one day...

[moemoe]

Very nice! the people at ringwood make lake O the great fishery that is.

[Leecher]

Awesome Skeeter and cudos to you for taking the time to be part of such a successful event

Thanks for sharing

Leechman