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Project Yolk Sack:

Officials and investegators recently uncovered a major hatchery lab, thanks to some savvy detective work done by agents in the field.



Pretty innocent looking setting until having to penetrate the first of many buildings in the raid.



Once inside the TEAM found the source!!



Brown Trout and lots of them. Those trays above are this falls crop that almost made their way into wading anglers nets.

These guys were scheduled to hit the market in May....about 40,000 or so Browns in 2 tanks.



This was a very sophisticated operation producing various strains of Lake Trout, Speckled Trout, Rainbow Trout and brood stock Walleye.....yes i said Walleye!!




There were thirty holding tanks alone in the one building. Each tank contains roughly 20,000 fish and to ensure high quality yeild, each tank receives 15,000 litres of lake water per hour at approximately 2 degrees above zero.

These tanks hold adult Bay of Quinte Walleye breeding stock, stricktly for the the purpose of the recreational user.



The young seedlings are fed again, through a sophistcated computerized rail system. Skid loads of vital vittles are housed before they are needed.



The food is manually put into large hoppers.



The seemingly endless supply of food then ends up into a dispsensary system that covers 30 tanks(15 per tier) 40 times daily.



Here are some Lake Nipigon strain Specks that are destined for public access lakes by truck and helicopter.




There were also Whitefish that are a natural strain from Lake Simcoe. Most will end up back in Simcoe and some will go to smaller lakes to hopefully establish a sport fishery.

Here is yet another tray of hatched fish. These lakers will supplement the Lake Ontario fishery. I can't quite remember the strain and origin but was fascinated by them swimming clockwise.



And this is the result from over a year ago, just a handful of the 100,000 that will be transplanted this spring into Lake ontario.



We never made it to the Splake building as investigators are just uncovering what could be the largest find of back-cross stash in history....and for that reason, due to the fragile nature of the investigation I find it premature and speculative in nature to comment at the present time.

Your fishing licence dollars at work!

Thanks Jim!!!!

wow thats a load a fish , im confused, was this a backyard operation?? or government run

Where's the baby muskies?

I may be wrong, by I think Slop was taking a jab at how grow ops are reported.

BeaArthur

lol well done Slop....it IS nice to see tax dollars working well

Great report SFA (Special Field Agent) Slop.

Did you switch brands of Vodka, or were you into the budweisers? That is not the normal vocabulary or grammar for and early AM report.

Keep up the investigations, but keep your eyes out of my bathtub. Using nanotechnology and a new molecular based breeding environment, I am raising the fattest strain of barrhaven splake known to man

Great read Dr. Slop


Pm sent.

they should do that with sturgeon and american eel because they are endangered species

Doeun_k wrote:they should do that with sturgeon and american eel because they are endangered species

They do, there are some Native run hatcheries that culture Sturgeon!

As for Muskies, when I was a student, I co-op'd at one of the first Musky Hatcheries in Ontario, if not Canada. Just outside of Lindsay Ontario. The fish were held in large outdoor ponds.

You could always tell the ones who were eating there brothers and sisters, because they were the largest! That is the main obstacle in raising Musky, they are cannibals, and once one musky gets to big, you can say by to all the other smaller ones!

Fantastic! But man was I confused.... I was thinking, why in the world would somebody go to all the effort to raise these things illegally? And why is it BAD?? lol

Good to hear there's also Musky hatcheries.

Sure had me going for awhile.. wow...

Priorguy!

THE FISHERMAN'S CREED:

Early to bed...early to rise...fish like heck and make up lies! That was a whopper Grant...what a hoot .

Shouldn't you be fishing and sending PMs and reports to your buddies .

ratsotail

I've always wanted to go on a tour at a hatchery....its gotta be a long arduous process....

Cool thread Grant.

RJ

Doeun_k wrote:they should do that with sturgeon and american eel because they are endangered species

that would make too much sense!

cool thread but i have pretty mixed feelings about the whole stocking thing. stocking simcoe strain whitefish and native char species - good.
stocking non-native broon troot - no thanks.

Very cool. Reminds me of my days in college. Fleming

I forgot to mention that the hatchery has also produced 10,000 lakers for Charelston Lake. These lakers will be the last infusion until the MNR decides differently for the future of Charelston.