hatchery

The pond dried up in the 1970s after two wells were drilled as part of an expansion of the nearby fish hatchery at Fish Springs, and as pumping lowered the water table, Williams said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025

Chris Weston, senior hatchery technician at the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow, Cornwall, has observed colour changes in lobsters raised in captivity.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025

"Interestingly, when we deploy them into containers in the sea, they often shift to a darker, more natural blue. But when they return to the hatchery, they become lighter again."

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025

Now the delta smelt is functionally extinct in the wild, the species preserved only through a state and federal hatchery program, the success of which is uncertain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025

Unlike at the poultry factory, we could come and go freely at the hatchery.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

The bass have consumed so many fingerlings that state officials have resorted to the ridiculous extreme of transporting baby salmon in tanker trucks, from upstream hatcheries to downstream locations closer to the San Francisco Bay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

As detailed by National Geographic, it is a common practice in salmon hatcheries to harvest salmon sperm, which requires a scientist to squeeze a salmon in the right spot — also known as abdominal massaging.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024

The federal government opened salmon hatcheries to compensate, but they have not produced enough fish to make up for the losses from poor water management.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

Many are now raised in government-run hatcheries before being released back into their native waters to later return to those same hatcheries.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024

In the spring of 1961 an epidemic of liver cancer appeared among rainbow trout in many federal, state, and private hatcheries.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson