THE MCGOWAN LAKE FISH HATCHERY

摘要

Government-run facility in eastern Canada produces speckled and brown trout for restocking local waterways.The McGowan Lake Fish Hatchery wasn't the first hatchery operated by the Nova Scotia government in Atlantic Canada, but it has a storied history all its own. "It was constructed by the province in 1986-87," says Mike McNeil, a fisheries biologist with the Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries 8c Aquaculture and the manager of the hatchery. "Before that we had one in Antigonish County, which was an old federal fisheries facility. We were contracting brook trout growing and stocking to federal fisheries hatcheries down here on the south shore and that wasn't working out well. So they rWirlprl to construct a site in south-western Nova Scotia."