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Walleye restoration and conservation in the Lake Champlain Basin
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About four years ago LCWA decided that an attempt at running portable hatcheries on some of Vermont's rivers might be a good idea to supplement the Walleye stocking program. We also thought that we might be able to tell if water conditions were having an adverse effect on egg hatch in the Missisquoi River. Our southern Director John Rozell took up the challenge and built the first LCWA portable hatchery. Each year John has done a great job and been very successful raising Walleye Fry for stocking in the South Bay of Lake Champlain. This year John collected over one million eggs and hatched just over nine hundred thousand fry which were stocked to South Bay. Our second portable hatchery was built to be run on the Missisquoi River. This hatchery has also been quite successful raising Walleye Fry for stocking back to the Missisquoi River Basin. The pictures below are of both hatcheries and some of the marking and stocking done from them. Whitehall Portable
Egg Jars in the Whitehall Portable
Missisquoi Portable on the River
Inside the Portable
Stripping Eggs
Fry being marked for Stocking
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