Disease outbreak at Hot Creek hatchery

[tcorfey]

Bad news from CDFW...

https://cdfgnews.wordpress.com/2021/05/28/disease-outbreak-at-hot-creek-trout-hatchery-halts-fish-planting-by-mono-county-facility/?fbclid=IwAR0oTW3eVqF3LIMrOxL8jnO6bTUdeGITU3fNJMHi wXzhJHGJW277vq2dHJc

Regards,

Tim C

[steveg137]

Bad news indeed. 3m euthanized trout too.
Thanks for sharing

[Lew Riffle]

Bummer but expected. Theses hatcheries along the east side have had their share of grief the past few years. The bailing wire holding them together is rusting and busting. Betcha we won't see any excess budget money spent on updating hatcheries. CDFW will spend it on promoting "fishing opportunities" that they don't sustain. Especially in Inyo and Mono Counties.

[Mark Kranhold]

Bummer but expected. Theses hatcheries along the east side have had their share of grief the past few years. The bailing wire holding them together is rusting and busting. Betcha we won't see any excess budget money spent on updating hatcheries. CDFW will spend it on promoting "fishing opportunities" that they don't sustain. Especially in Inyo and Mono Counties.

Very sad news. Actually they just updated the ladder system at the Natoma hatchery on the American river, did away with the gates. Now the ladder system starts up by the dam, which should have been done in the first place. All we need now is some water!! Isn’t the saying if you build it they will come...lol

[Terry Thomas]

Very sad news. Actually they just updated the ladder system at the Natoma hatchery on the American river, did away with the gates. Now the ladder system starts up by the dam, which should have been done in the first place. All we need now is some water!! Isn’t the saying if you build it they will come...lol

Hopefully, the slack water behind the dam on the south side of the river won’t deter them from entering the new ladder system. Many believe that this has potential serious design problems.

[Mark Kranhold]

I was thinking the same thing Terry, but let’s hope the water flow out of the ladder entrance will give enough flow and scent for the fish to know where to go. Maybe they will open the far gate to get some flow to? Hopefully it works.

[Fish Guru]

The fish draw pretty heavily to that back sw corner when there’s any kind of runoff, as long as water’s moving out of that ladder they will find it no doubt.

[Digger]

June 19th

CDFW is pleased to announce that Hot Creek Hatchery is resuming the stocking of trout for recreational angling opportunities.

The hatchery was recently placed under a temporary quarantine because of the discovery of a single fish infected with Lactococcus garvieae, the bacterial strain that led to closures of three other Southern California hatcheries last year. The fish carrying the bacteria was not diseased. Following the discovery, CDFW pathologists tested over 780 fish in the hatchery raceways and did not find any other fish carrying the bacteria. This pathogen can result in significant losses of fish within a hatchery. CDFW is pleased that it was found in no other fish.