State Fish Hatchery

Initiatives and Accomplishments

Opportunities

• Work has been completed on one Capital Project (new fish production building) at Kincaid State Fish Hatchery.  Castalia State Fish Hatchery’s project (new production building and placing building over the trout raceways) is scheduled to be completed in September 2011 and London State Fish Hatchery (new electrical and alarm systems) is scheduled to be completed by Fiscal Year 2012.  Earthwork for a new production building at Castalia Hatchery is complete and the building construction is scheduled to begin August 1st, 2010.

• The Division’s six fish hatcheries raised more than 27 million fish, including 459,000 steelhead, 19,600 muskellunge advanced fingerlings, 105,000 catchable rainbow trout, 558,000 brown trout, 3.6 million saugeye fingerlings, 205,000 walleye fingerlings, 20 million saugeye and walleye fry, 680,000 yellow perch, 1.5 million hybrid striped bass, and 247,000 channel catfish.
• The Hatchery Section personnel completed the construction of a Fish Isolation Facility at the Aquatic Ecology Lab at The Ohio State University in cooperation with the administration at OSU’s Aquatic Ecology Lab.  This facility was put to quick use this spring to facilitate annual saugeye and hybrid striped bass production and to help protect the hatchery facilities from outside sources of fish disease.
• The storage building/workshop at the London State Fish Hatchery that was destroyed by a wildfire this past spring is currently under construction and all the equipment lost in the fire is being replaced.