BY ANGELA BARAN-DAGENDESH, GENOA NFH A Hine’s emerald dragonfly in the cage during a monthly health check. Credit: Angela Baran Dagendesh, USFWS After working with the Hine’s emerald dragonfly for almost 20 years, both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service … Continue reading
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BY: HENRY QUINLAN, EVAN BOONE, BRANDON KEESLER AND OREY ECKES Fish biologist Henry Quinlan with the Ashland FWCO holds a 24 inch coaster brook trout captured during the 2018 gamete collection in Tobin Harbor on Isle Royale National Park. … Continue reading
The Genoa hatchery at long last opened our interpretive center this summer. This was due to the help of a cast of thousands as we like to say, as it really took the inspiration and creativity of thousands to make the … Continue reading
One of the objectives at Genoa National Fish Hatchery is restoring species, whether that be to levels needed for recreation or to recover a species from endangerment. If you’ve taken a tour of the hatchery, walked through the new interpretive … Continue reading
This year Genoa National Fish Hatchery staff collected eggs from the Wolf, Wisconsin, Rainy, St. Clair and St. Lawrence Rivers. Throughout the summer hatchery biologists, pathways students and Youth Conservation Corp. enrollees have their hands full feeding and caring for … Continue reading
We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are pleased to announce the opening of the Great River Road Interpretive Center in Genoa, Wisconsin. Regional Director Tom Melius joined Congressman Ron Kind and other dignitaries to mark the grand opening … Continue reading
BY NATHAN ECKERT, GENOA NFH The salamander mussel is the only North American freshwater mussel that uses something other than a fish as its larval host. The mudpuppy, a large salamander, is the known host of the salamander mussel, … Continue reading
All, Thanks so much for all of your hard work in the preparation and execution of the Kids Ice Fishing Day at Genoa NFH on Saturday February 3 this year. We had 648 attendees, volunteers, Friends and staff from the … Continue reading
The Genoa National Fish Hatchery’s mission at its inception in 1932 was to provide sport fish for area waters, but with the advent of the Endangered Species Act in 1975, our mission has shifted to include the recovery of endangered … Continue reading
August of 2017 saw the start of a long term project releasing Higgins’ eye mussels into the Chippewa River. Isn’t this just more of the same in mussel releases you ask? Hardly, because Higgins’ eye have been extirpated from this … Continue reading