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Lake Aberdeen Hatchery
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Close to Aberdeen, WA, is Lake Aberdeen, and the Lake Aberdeen
Hatchery. Lake Aberdeen is a man-made lake, formed when an
earthen dam was installed to help control flooding.
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The hatchery primarily raises Steelhead, the "official game
fish" of Washington. The fish remain in the hatchery for two
years, where they are about the size of your hand. After
release, they return to the hatchery after 2-3 years, and
generally make 2-3 trips back to the hatchery before they die,
which is normally after their second or third spawning run. |
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There are two distinct sizes of fish... those who be released
at the end of the summer are about as big as your hand...
those that were spending their first summer in the hatchery
were about as big as your finger. Walking around the
hatchery was a little bit creepy, because the fish, trained to
know that "the big animals walking around have food", would
swim, in unison, quickly to your end of the tank they were in,
churning up the water as they came... it sort of felt like
"The Birds", almost. |
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