Big Stone Lake, located on the South Dakota – Minnesota border was once home to abundantnumbers of lake sturgeon. Many factors including over harvest and poor water quality led to anextirpated population of lake sturgeon by year 1946. Currently South … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2022
The week of 9/12 I was able to get out with the help of La Crosse FWCO staff to help replenish ourbroodstock numbers. Periodically adding new broodstock to the mix helps on a couple of differentfronts. One, it helps to … Continue reading
Hatchery biologists joined partners from the Park Service the Minnesota-Wisconsin Ecological Services Field Office, U.S.G.S., and the University of Minnesota to search for displaying Winged Mapleleaf this year. Over the past 6 years we’ve experienced different patterns of flow and … Continue reading
Interested in volunteering? The Great River Road Interpretive Center at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery is looking for volunteers to help in our gift shop. Please call Erica 608-689-2605 if you are interested! Thank you! Photo: pictures of water, grass, … Continue reading
In collaboration with the WI DNR, GNFH is planning to restore Snuffbox populations in the Wolf River basin. Last fall, WI DNR biologists spent some chilly dive days aggregating males and females to ensure that brooding females could be found … Continue reading
Every spring, as the early flood waters on the Mississippi River recede, we eagerly await time to launch the MARS (Mobile Aquatic Rearing System) mussel culture trailer. Placement of the trailer at Blackhawk Park, a USA Corps of Engineers facility … Continue reading
Megan Bradley, a mussel conservation biologist at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery in Genoa, Wisconsin, recently received news that she will receive the coveted 2022 FWS Midwest Region Recovery Champion Award for her work with federally endangered … Continue reading
BY DOUG ALOISI, GENOA NATIONAL FISH HATCHERY Kids and their parents from all over the tri-state area of Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota gathered at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery for our 19th annual Kids Fishing Day on May 14th this … Continue reading
BY BETH GLIDEWELL, GENOA NATIONAL FISH HATCHERY The Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly (HED) eggs that were housed at Genoa National Fish Hatchery over the winter began hatching in late March and by late May, 445 eggs had successfully hatched. These eggs … Continue reading
BY MIDWEST REGION 3 Megan Bradley, a mussel propagation specialist at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery in Genoa, Wisconsin, received the Midwest Region recovery champion award for her work with endangered freshwater mussels in the Upper Mississippi River. Megan worked … Continue reading