U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Nashua National Fish Hatchery

Represented by Members of Congress: Management Activities Senator Judd Gregg (R) Each year the Nashua National Fish Senator John E. Sununu (R) Hatchery utilizes approximately 1,300 Rep. Paul Hodes (D-2nd) Atlantic salmon for egg production. Once spawned, the domestic fish are Contact surplus to program needs and are Kyle Flanery, Project Leader released into the Merrimack River for Nashua National Fish Hatchery the largest directed Atlantic salmon 151 Broad Street fishery in New England. The fish are Nashua, NH 03063 marked, transported and released by Phone: 603/595 0891 the New Hampshire Fish and Game Fax: 603/595 0892 Department. TDD: 800/877 8339 E-mail: [email protected] The Nashua National Fish Hatchery hosts approximately 1,500 students

Purpose and adults from the Adopt-A- USFWS The Nashua National Fish Hatchery Salmon Family watershed education Shad tank supports Atlantic salmon and program, area schools, and civic and other fish restoration efforts in the scouting groups, and provides them Merrimack River and other rivers in with information about resource New Hampshire, Massachusetts and stewardship and anadromous fish Rhode Island. The station provides restoration programs. eggs for fry release programs and broodstock for Atlantic salmon fisheries. Salmon eggs are obtained Highlights from adult sea-run salmon captured in The station produced 1.4 million the Merrimack River and held on the salmon eggs in 2006. In 2006, most station and from domestic broodstock of the salmon eggs were shipped maintained at the hatchery. American to the North Attleboro National shad eggs are obtained from adult Fish Hatchery where they were shad returning to the Merrimack incubated, hatched and released into Roettiger/USFWS Tim River, and juveniles are released the headwaters of rivers. The fry Brook floater mussels to underutilized sections of the mature in a natural environment and Merrimack River and Charles River migrate to the sea to complete their in Massachusetts. life cycle. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 1 800/344 WILD Public Use Notes Also in the summer of 2006, the http://www.fws.gov n Guided tours hatchery produced 1.8 million n Lectures shad fry that were released into January 2007 n Multimedia presentations the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts, and provided a refuge for 1,200 endangered brook floater mussels that were stranded without water when the Suncook River near Concord, New Hampshire, changed its course last May.