Tionesta Hatchery

Another easy collection today. This was number 4 for the season and the weather was nice enough to get into Godfrey Run today.

We don’t get many Winter days like this on the Lake Erie shoreline.

These are Steelhead fry that are only on day 1 post hatch. These fry are from our first spawn on 11/20. They will live off of their attached yolk sac for approximately 2 weeks before it will be absorbed and they will begin eating a dry feed diet that we supply them with.

This egg picker makes hatching Steelhead a breeze. The picker sends a light beam through the egg. If it senses any opaqueness, the egg is given a shot of air and knocked into the bad side. If the egg is in good shape, water flushed it from the wheel and sent to the good side.

Over One Million green Steelhead eggs between our last 2 spawns. At a 50 degree water temperature, these eggs should take about 30 days to hatch.