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<blockquote data-quote="Dirty" data-source="post: 263071" data-attributes="member: 6535"><p>The Valley City Hatchery page mentions:</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit"><strong>Current Fish Production</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">Fish species being produced at the Hatchery include; Lake Sturgeon, Bluegill, Black Crappie, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, and pure Muskellunge (commonly known as Muskie )</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">The Baldhill rearing unit lies directly below Baldhill Dam 12 miles northwest of Valley City, North Dakota on County Road 17. The unit was acquired through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and provided the Service with a unique opportunity to increase fish production. <u>The water source for Baldhill is Lake Ashtabula.</u></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">The Baldhill Unit consists of 20 earthen ponds totaling 15.2 surface acres of extensive fish culture as well as an intensive fish production building designed for egg incubation, early life stage rearing of native and endangered fish and freshwater mussel propagation. Valley City National Fish Hatchery (NFH) along with the Baldhill Dam Rearing Unit plays an important role in providing quality fishing opportunities throughout the Great Plains Region and in restoring Lake Sturgeon and Freshwater Mussel populations within the Hudson Bay Drainage.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit"><u><em>In the Fisheries program, we are working to ensure that our staff doesn't move any aquatic invasive species (AIS) to new waters when fulfilling the mission of the Service. </em></u>By inspecting our fish hatcheries and their microscopic young, we eliminate the chance of spreading AIS when stocking fish in our waters. This is a crucial step in prevention as these non-native species spread quickly by “hitchhiking” to new areas through mud on boots, vegetation caught on vehicles, or water left in boats. The invasion of AIS can cost our communities millions of dollars in restoration as they can occupy habitat our native species use, consume food our native species require; and even consume the native species themselves. </span></span><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dirty, post: 263071, member: 6535"] The Valley City Hatchery page mentions: [COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit'][B]Current Fish Production[/B][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit']Fish species being produced at the Hatchery include; Lake Sturgeon, Bluegill, Black Crappie, Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Northern Pike, and pure Muskellunge (commonly known as Muskie ) [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit']The Baldhill rearing unit lies directly below Baldhill Dam 12 miles northwest of Valley City, North Dakota on County Road 17. The unit was acquired through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and provided the Service with a unique opportunity to increase fish production. [U]The water source for Baldhill is Lake Ashtabula.[/U][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit']The Baldhill Unit consists of 20 earthen ponds totaling 15.2 surface acres of extensive fish culture as well as an intensive fish production building designed for egg incubation, early life stage rearing of native and endangered fish and freshwater mussel propagation. Valley City National Fish Hatchery (NFH) along with the Baldhill Dam Rearing Unit plays an important role in providing quality fishing opportunities throughout the Great Plains Region and in restoring Lake Sturgeon and Freshwater Mussel populations within the Hudson Bay Drainage.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit'] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit'][U][I]In the Fisheries program, we are working to ensure that our staff doesn't move any aquatic invasive species (AIS) to new waters when fulfilling the mission of the Service. [/I][/U]By inspecting our fish hatcheries and their microscopic young, we eliminate the chance of spreading AIS when stocking fish in our waters. This is a crucial step in prevention as these non-native species spread quickly by “hitchhiking” to new areas through mud on boots, vegetation caught on vehicles, or water left in boats. The invasion of AIS can cost our communities millions of dollars in restoration as they can occupy habitat our native species use, consume food our native species require; and even consume the native species themselves. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#666666][FONT='inherit'] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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