Huntsdale State Fish

195 Lebo Road, Carlisle, PA 17013 Visitor Hours 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (Monday through Friday) 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (Saturday and Sunday) www.fishandboat.com Visitors Center and 40 days, depending on species, and are 1 Administration Building nourished from the egg sac attached 4 Brood Stock Fish 6 Bulk Feed Storage The Visitors Center features a to the underside of the body for 2 to 4 Brood stock trout are select fish used Thousands of pounds of dry feed “living stream,” where trout can be weeks. Then, as fry, the trout begin taking for egg production at the hatchery. These are stored in large bulk storage bins. viewed in a setting that resembles dry feed for the first time. Now contained large fish, selected by experienced fish The commercially prepared feed is the natural habitat of trout. Visitors in indoor tanks, trout will be moved culturists for their outstanding physical easily loaded into trucks designed to learn about Pennsylvania fishes, trout outside into the raceways after the first and biological characteristics, are held drive between raceways. Moving along raised at the hatchery, venomous and 8 to 10 weeks. here until late summer through late fall each , the proper amount of food nonvenomous snakes, as well as the when fish once again produce offspring. is automatically dispensed from the truck. history of the hatchery. 3 Raceways The raceways are home to thousands of 5 Oxygen Tank 7 Aerator 2 Trout Hatch House trout, moved from the trout hatch house A large liquid oxygen tank provides This device adds oxygen to the water Eggs are taken from brood stock as fingerlings, about 3 inches long. Each oxygen to the raceways through a series flowing through the hatchery. It also trout beginning in July, fertilized and 200-foot raceway can hold about 20,000 of Low Head Oxygenators. removes excess nitrogen and other gases placed in incubators where eggs are adult trout. The exact number fluctuates from the water, a condition harmful to the immersed in a constant flow of clean, as fish are graded and sorted according to fish. From here, the water is distributed to cold water. The trout hatch in 28 to size several times throughout hatchery life. the raceways and trout hatch house.

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Please Park Here Huntsdale State Fish Hatchery Huntsdale State Fish Hatchery Established in 1932, the Huntsdale and rearing of various species of State Fish Hatchery is contained on the trout. The trout produced are approximately 80 developed acres out stocked, according to accepted of 167 total acres of land owned by management procedures, in waters the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania open to public in Pennsylvania. and managed by the Pennsylvania Located in Huntsdale, the hatchery is Fish & Boat Commission. Supported 10 miles southwest of Carlisle, near the by the sales of fishing licenses, the intersection of Route 233 and Interstate Commission’s and fishery 81. It is a short distance from Pine management programs are well known Grove Furnace State Park, Cumberland and respected throughout the nation. County, and Caledonia State Park, Water supply to the facility is obtained Adams and Franklin counties. You’re in primarily from multiple springs for the middle of the famous Cumberland raising trout species. Concrete raceways County limestone region and at the are used for trout production prior to headwaters of the widely acclaimed stocking in Pennsylvania’s waterways. Yellow Breeches Creek. The Huntsdale State Fish Hatchery Huntsdale State Fish Hatchery is one of 13 hatcheries operated by the is a trout hatchery designed for Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission. peak efficiency to serve the anglers Depending on the time of year, it of Pennsylvania. More than 900,000 may be possible to observe spawning trout are annually produced at procedures as well as the incubating this hatchery.

Fish Raised at this Hatchery

Rainbow Trout mykiss

Golden Oncorhynchus mykiss

Brown Trout Salmo trutta

Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis