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Lake Mendocino hatchery reports stronger spawning; 50 yearlings to be radio‑tagged
Summary
Commissioners heard that hatchery spawning has increased over last year and that Sonoma Water and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will surgically implant radio transmitters in 50 of the facility's yearling fish to track movements to the ocean.
A hatchery representative told the Mendocino County Fish and Wildlife Commission that spawning activity at the Lake Mendocino hatchery has increased compared with last year and that a pilot program to surgically implant radio transmitters in 50 yearling fish began during the week.
The speaker said the hatchery has held two spawning events so far and described the second as “a full contingency of spawning, which is 10 fish.” He said the hatchery currently holds “215,269 yearlings, 6 to 8 inches,” and that those fish are scheduled for release in about three weeks in a concentrated outmigration over two or three days.
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