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Fish Technology Centers

Directory Table of Contents

Background ..................................................................................................................................1

Abernathy Fish Technology Center ........................................................................................2

Bozeman Fish Technology Center ..........................................................................................6

Dexter Fish Technology Center ............................................................................................10

Lamar Fish Technology Center ............................................................................................14

Mora Fish Technology Center................................................................................................18

San Marcos Fish Technology Center ....................................................................................22

Warm Springs Fish Technology Center................................................................................26

All cover photos USFWS
Albuquerque

Denver

Tw

TX

OK

KS

WY

NE

MT

SD

UT

AZ

ND

NM

CO

CA

NV

ID

WA

OR

Hawaii

Makah

Quilcene

Quinault

Western Washington

Stockton

Carson

Little 

White Salmon

Flagstaff

Willow Beach

Alchesay

San Carlos

Pine Top

Williams Creek

Parker

Mescalero Dexter

New Mexico

Mora

Yreka Arcata

Lahontan

Red Bluff

Ennis

Bozeman

Creston

Lewistown

Saratoga

D.C. Booth

Garrison

Dam

Jones Hole

Leadville

Colorado 

River 

Fishery 

Project

Hagerman

San Marcos

Inks Dam

Uvalde

Tishomin

Montana

Lander

Jackson

Ouray

Lower Snake River

Comp Plan

Gavins Point

Great Plains

Valley City

Colorado 

River

Fishery 

Project

Hotchkiss

Colorado 

Reno

Austin

National Fish Hatchery Oklahoma

Fish and Wildlife Resource Office

Fish Technology Center

Fish Health Center

Fish Genetics Laboratory

Regional Headquarters

Sea Lamprey Control Office

Historic National Fish Hatchery

October 2000

Anchorage

AK

King Salmon Juneau

Fairbanks

Kenai

Anchorage

Marine Mammals Management

Entiat

Willard

Western Montana

California/Nevada

Livingston Stone

Spring 

Creek

Leavenworth

Winthrop

Lower Warm Springs

Columbia River

Columbia River

 Olympia

Portland

Coleman

Dworshak

Kooskia

Mid Columbia River

 

Idaho

Missouri River

Roosevelt

Eagle Creek

Abernathy
Hadley

Atlanta

win Cities

Puerto Rico 

and Virgin Islands

FL

NC

SC

AL

LA

MS

TN

KY

AR

VA

NY

PA

WV

NH

ME

NJ

MI

VT

IN

IL

OH

MO

IA

MN

WI

Baton Rouge

Vero Beach

ngo

Columbia

Neosho

Iron River

LaCrosse

Genoa

Large Rivers

Wolf Creek

Dale Hollow Erwin

Norfork Mammoth 

Springs

Greers Ferry

Private

John Allen

Gulf Coast

Welaka

Bears Bluff

Morehead

Harrison Lake

Edenton

Susquehanna

River

Alpena

Ludington Biol. Station

Lamar

Glocester Point

Maryland

Virginia

Allegheny 

Marquette Biol. Station

Green Bay

Hiawatha Forest

Pendills Creek

Lower Great 

Lakes

N. Attleboro

Craig Brook

Maine

CT

Lake Champlain

Connecticut River

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Fisheries Program Facilities

Raleigh

GA

Carterville

Ashland

Great Lakes

Jordan River Sunderland

R. Cronin

Pittsford

White River

Laconia

Merrimack River

Green Lake

Central New England

MA

RI

Delaware River

DE MD

Nashua

White

Sulfur Springs

Chattahootchee Forest

Warm Springs

Wadmalaw Island

Orangeburg

Lower Mississippi

River

Natchitoches

Panama City

Abernathy Bozeman Dexter Lamar Mora

San Warm 

Marcos Springs

Aquatic Species Culture ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Aquatic Species Health ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Aquatic Species Nutrition ▲ ▲

Genetic Conservation and Management ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Fishery Management and Evaluation ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Ecosystem Management ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Fishery Technology Transfer ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Water Reuse ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Education and Outreach ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Rearing System Design ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Aquatic Species Refugia ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲

Plant Management ▲

Invasive Species Management/Control ▲ ▲ ▲

Fish Technology Centers 

Technical Expertise
1

In 1965, the Fish and Wildlife Service established seven Fish Technology Centers

nationwide to provide leadership and technology guidance to the National Fish

Hatchery System and fish culture community. Fish Technology Centers originally

focused on fish culture issues such as reducing costs, enhancing fish quality, and

improving overall fish culture operations. Today, as fishery managers respond to

increasing needs to aid in the restoration of native fish and other aquatic species 

and to produce healthy, genetically diverse organisms to assist in that effort, the

importance of Fish Technology Centers in providing sound science and technology

support is greater than ever.

The roles and responsibilities of Fish Technology Centers include technical 

support for captive propagation of imperiled aquatic species, for interjurisdictional

restoration programs, for control of invasive aquatic species, and for sound genetic

management of aquatic populations. Fish Technology Center activities range from

developing diets and propagation techniques for rare species, never before held in

captivity, to developing new marking and evaluation techniques, to genetic stock

identification, to providing assistance in study design. 

To accomplish their work, Fish Technology Centers maintain expertise in a 

number of disciplines, including physiology, genetics, and biometrics. Functioning 

as a cohesive system, each Technology Center strengthens the others with

complementary expertise, taking full advantage of various geographic differences 

to ensure that study results will successfully support a broad range of users and

management objectives. Through their partnership with other Service programs and

Federal agencies, States, Tribes, and the private sector, Fish Technology Centers

provide a vital link in the Service’s commitment to the conservation of our nation’s

aquatic resources.

Background

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Abernathy Fish Technology Center

Top left: Tule Fall Chinook spawning in Abernathy Creek, Longview, WA. Photo: Joe Zydlewski, volunteer.

Top right: Ann Gannam, Nutritionist, analyzing feed with bomb calorimeter. 

Bottom left: Collecting juvenile wild Steelhead to rear as wild broodstock. 

Bottom right: PIT tagging adult trout to monitor genetic families. 

All photos USFWS
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Areas of Specialization

Fishery Evaluation

■ Evaluation of natural rearing practices

■ Characteristics of smoltification and juvenile migration

■ Hatchery evaluation and monitoring 

Aquatic Species Culture

■ Use of native broodstock to restore declining populations

■ Specialized culture techniques and methodology 

Aquatic Species Nutrition

■ Quality assurance of hatchery feeds

■ Life-stage specific diet development

■ Diets for captive broodstock programs 

Genetic Conservation and Management

■ Technical assistance in Endangered Species Act determinations

■ Genetic analyses and monitoring

■ Genetic protocols and policies 

Aquatic Species Health

■ Innovative techniques to detect and treat diseases and pathogens

■ Immunology 

■ Disease treatments protocols 

Region 1

California

Washington

Oregon

Idaho

Nevada

Hawaii

Abernathy

Abernathy Fish Technology Center
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Objectives

■ To conduct applied research for recovery and restoration of Pacific salmon,

sturgeon, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout/steelhead, and lamprey

■ To provide technical expertise in genetics, fish propagation techniques, nutrition,

pathology, and behavioral physiology to benefit culture of declining, threatened and

endangered species

■ To develop new and innovative fish culture technologies to produce quality fish for

conservation and management programs

■ To provide leadership in the management of fishery resources through the

assessment and evaluation of hatchery products

■ To work with various Federal and State agencies, tribal, sport, and conservation

groups to provide fishery resources for the present and the future

Address

Street Address: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Abernathy Fish Technology Center

1440 Abernathy Creek Road

Longview, WA 98632

Mailing Address: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Abernathy Fish Technology Center

1440 Abernathy Creek Road

Longview, WA 98632

Telephone: 360/425 6072

Fax: 360/636 1855

Web Address: www.r1.fws.gov/aftc

Email: lisa_wilson@fws.gov

Abernathy Fish Technology Center

Gayle Zydlewski, Behavioral Physiologist, collecting ATPase data.
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Technical Staff and Expertise

Center Director

■ Program management/development

■ Hatchery/wild salmon studies and evaluations

■ Genetic considerations in aquaculture

■ Adaptations, behavior, and life history theory 

Assistant Center Director

■ Program management/development

■ Personnel management and development

■ Statistical applications and consultations 

Geneticist

■ Population genetics

■ Conservation of genetic resources

■ Genetic monitoring and evaluations

■ Genetic management of fishery resources 

Biostatistician

■ Experimental and sampling design

■ Statistical applications and consultations

■ Data analyses 

Nutritionist

■ Fish nutrition

■ Diet development

■ Biochemistry

■ Fish feed contaminants 

Behavioral Physiologist

■ Fish physiology

■ Olfactory cues for migration

■ Physiological traits of smoltification

■ Hatchery/wild salmon studies 

Microbiologist

■ Fish diseases/immunology

■ Microbiology

■ Investigational New Animal Drug Coordinator 

Chemist

■ Water quality/chemistry

■ Fish feed and tissue analyses

■ Regional Environmental Compliance Inspection Team 

Fishery Biologist

■ Sturgeon culture

■ Salmonid culture 

■ Wild broodstock propagation technology development 

Extruder Operator

■ Fish feed production

■ Fish culture 

■ Operation and maintenance of fish feed extruder 

Computer Assistant

■ Hardware/software technical support

■ Network operation and maintenance

■ Website and Internet access maintenance 

Abernathy Fish Technology Center
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Bozeman Fish Technology Center

Top left: Jim Bowker, INAD group, mixing chemicals. 

Top right: Pat Dwyer (foreground) electrofishing. 

Bottom left: Rick Barrows and feed making equipment. 

Bottom right: Bob Koby using the spectrophotometer to measure minerals in diets and tissue. 

All photos USFWS
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Areas of Specialization

Aquatic Species Culture

■ Culture of imperiled species

■ Cost effectiveness of hatcheries

■ Development of captive broodstocks

■ Fish hatchery design

■ Water quality management

■ Water disinfection technology 

Fishery Evaluation

■ Fishery management techniques

■ Behavioral interactions between species

■ Fish growth and survival

■ Marking and tagging methods

■ Deterrents for invasive species 

Aquatic Species Nutrition

■ Development of fish feeds for imperiled species

■ Fish food manufacturing technology and quality assurance

■ Diet testing

■ Pollution reduction and special larval feeds

■ Feed coatings with stimulants or attractants 

Aquatic Species Health

■ Histopathology

■ Diseases of wild and hatchery fish

■ National Investigational New Animal Drug (INAD) Office

■ Aquaculture drug registration

■ Drug delivery methods 

Bozeman Fish Technology Center

Montana

Wyoming

Utah

Colorado

Nebraska

Kansas

North Dakota

South Dakota

Region 6

Bozeman
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Objectives

■ To conduct applied research for recovery of listed species and restoration of species

of special concern

■ To deliver scientific support for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service operational programs

in areas of Center expertise

■ To implement diet testing, feed development, feed quality control, histopathology,

fish health, and fish culture for imperiled fish species

■ To develop maintenance and/or propagation techniques and system for imperiled

species

■ To develop techniques to ensure genetic diversity and maintain quality of

propagated fish species

■ To house the Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Investigational New Animal Drug

(INAD) field office. Evaluate efficacy and target animal safety of therapeutic drugs.

The INAD laboratory is compliant with Good Laboratory Practices procedures

■ To strive to register chemotherapeutants, anesthetics, and spawning hormones for

use in hatcheries and wild fish

■ To develop a national network with Federal, State, tribal, and private agencies for

use of drugs and chemicals in fish hatcheries, and host an annual INAD Workshop

■ To provide technical assistance to pallid sturgeon, bull trout and Arctic grayling

Recovery Teams and restoration efforts and for conservation plans related to

species of special concern

■ To test effects of pathogens and parasites on wild fish populations

■ To disseminate technical information to Federal and State agencies and the private

sector through scientific journals, Bozeman Information Leaflets, and presentations

at professional meetings and workshops

Address

Street Address: Bozeman Fish Technology Center

4050 Bridger Canyon Road

Bozeman, MT 59715

Mailing Address: Bozeman Fish Technology Center

4050 Bridger Canyon Road

Bozeman, MT 59715

Telephone: 406/587 9265

Fax: 406/586 5942

Web Address: www.r6.fws.gov/fisheries/mt/bozemanftc.htm

Email: sue_osborne@fws.gov

Bozeman Fish Technology Center
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Technical Staff and Expertise

Center Director

■ Administration and program development

■ Station outreach

■ Hatchery operations

■ Stress and reproductive physiology 

Assistant Center Director

■ Administration, maintenance and outreach

■ Intensive production fish culture

■ Hatchery water management, oxygen supplementation, water reuse

■ Hatchery design and development

■ Use of ultrasound for delivery of compounds to fish 

Nutritionist

■ Diet development and testing

■ Feed manufacturing/technology

■ Low pollution feeds

■ Larval fish culture and nutrition

■ Effects of metals in diets 

Fish Culture Manager

■ Fishery management

■ Fish culture and health

■ Recovery and restoration of imperiled species

■ Techniques for removal of non-indigenous species

Hatchery Manager

■ Intensive and extensive culture techniques

■ Larval culture

■ Water reuse systems

■ Public outreach

■ Maintenance and facility management 

National Investigational New Animal Drug (INAD) Coordinator

■ FDA liaison

■ Coordinate FWS and national INAD program activities

■ INAD procedures

■ Reproductive physiology 

Assistant Investigational New Animal Drug (INAD) Coordinator

■ INAD principal regional coordinator, Region 6

■ Aquaculture drug registration data collection 

Fishery Biologist, Investigational New Animal Drug Office

■ Statistical analyses and experimental design

■ Aquaculture drug registration data collection 

General Biologist

■ Water quality management

■ Effluent management

■ Feed analyses and quality control 

Fishery Biologist, Investigational New Animal Drug Office

■ INAD database coordinator 

Bozeman Fish Technology Center
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Dexter Fish Technology Center

Top left: Bonytail chubs. 

Top right: Larvae rearing tanks and associated recirculating water system.

Bottom left: Dave Hampton and Phillip Sosa harvesting bonytail chub broodfish for genetic testing. 

Bottom right: Phillip Sosa examines captured juvenile bonytail for external parasites and overall condition. 

All photos USFWS
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Areas of Specialization

Aquatic Species Culture

■ New propagation strategies, systems, practices, methods, and technologies

■ New applications of existing methods and technologies

■ Identify factors limiting performance and improve culture environments

■ Identify critical ecological and life history requirements

■ Diet testing

■ Gamete storage and cryopreservation

■ Product and performance testing and evaluation

■ Fish marking and tagging

■ Water conservation and reuse 

Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery

■ Refugia program management

■ Genetics conservation program management

■ Controlled fish propagation and reintroduction program management

■ Recovery planning, implementation, and evaluation

■ Recovery-directed studies and experiments

■ Public education and outreach

■ Information and technology transfer and training 

Ecosystem Management

■ Upper/Middle Rio Grande

■ Lower Rio Grande

■ Pecos River

■ Upper and Lower Colorado River

■ San Juan River

■ Gila/Salt/Verde Rivers 

Genetic Conservation and Management

■ Gene pool maintenance program

■ Genetic analyses––stock identification, characterization, monitoring, and evaluation

■ Genetic status and trend assessments

■ Artificial genetic refuge populations

■ Production broodstock

■ Breeding, rearing, maintenance, and reintroduction strategies

■ Genetic hazard and risk assessments

■ Short-term and long-term gamete storage

■ Genetic studies––effects of inbreeding, outbreeding, drift, selection, hybridization, 

and domestication on genetic resources

■ Performance testing

■ Develop, implement, and evaluate genetic conservation plans, strategies, practices,

methods, protocols, and technologies

Dexter Fish Technology Center

Texas

New Mexico Arizona

Oklahoma

Region 2 

Dexter
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Objectives

■ To prevent imminent extinction of imperiled aquatic species

■ To genetically identify and characterize imperiled native fishes of the Southwest

■ To develop and maintain artificial genetic refuge populations and captive

broodstocks for threatened, endangered, and otherwise imperiled native fishes of

the Southwest

■ To develop and maintain Regional Imperiled Fish Genetic Resources Database

■ To plan, implement, and evaluate broodstock management plans for all species

maintained at Dexter

■ To develop propagation strategies that promote genetic conservation, improve

performance, and minimize genetic and ecological risks associated with controlled

propagation activities

■ To develop, test, evaluate and apply principles, practices, methods, protocols, and

technologies that conserve unique genetic resources and promote successful

implementation of controlled propagation strategies

■ To inform and educate the public of the value and threats to their natural wildlife

and fisheries resources

Address

Street Address: Dexter National Fish Hatchery & Technology Center

7116 Hatchery Road off of State Hwy 190

Dexter, NM 88230

Mailing Address: Dexter National Fish Hatchery & Technology Center

P.O. Box 219

Dexter, NM 88230

Telephone: 505/734 5910

Fax: 505/734 6130

Web Address: http://fisheries.fws.gov/ftc/ftcdexter.htm

Email: r2ffa_dx@mail.fws.gov

Dexter Fish Technology Center
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Technical Staff and Expertise

Center Director

■ Administration and program development

■ Station outreach

■ Hatchery operations 

Assistant Center Director 

■ Warmwater, coldwater, and endangered fishes

■ Endangered fish culture and propagation

■ Hormonal spawning of fishes

■ Use of therapeutents for controlling diseases 

Research Leader, Geneticist/Fish Culturist

■ Genetic conservation and management of natural and captive threatened,

endangered and otherwise imperiled native fish populations including genetic

refuge populations, broodstocks, and fish propagated for specific restoration and

recovery purposes

■ Genetic management in propagation and reintroduction program planning,

implementation, evaluation, and coordination

■ Integrated propagation management systems design

■ Developing, testing, evaluating, and applying new propagation systems, strategies,

practices, protocols, and technologies to improve performance of hatchery produced

fish in recovery, conservation, and management programs

Molecular Ecology Lab Manager, Fishery Biologist/Geneticist

■ Genetic conservation and management of threatened, endangered, and otherwise

imperiled native fish populations

■ Genetic analyses of natural and wild fish populations

■ Develop, evaluate, test, and apply new genetic technologies to identify, characterize,

evaluate, and understand genetic diversity in natural and hatchery fish populations

■ Monitor, evaluate, and manage genetic impact of hatchery fish introductions

■ Develop genetic profiles and data bases for individual broodfish, broodfish

populations, and progeny

Fishery Biologist/Culturist

■ Hatchery and broodstock management

■ Develop and apply new fish culture methods and technologies for genetics

conservation and propagation purposes

■ Spawn, rear, and maintain threatened, endangered, and otherwise imperiled native

fishes

■ Water quality and reuse systems design and operations

■ Fish health management

Dexter Fish Technology Center
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Lamar Fish Technology Center

Top left: Extracting milt from Atlantic sturgeon in Hudson River. 

Top right: American eel elver marked with calcein.

Bottom left: Outreach at a sportsman’s show. 

Bottom right: Atlantic sturgeon juveniles. 

All photos USFWS
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Lamar Fish Technology Center

Areas of Specialization

Aquatic Species Culture

■ Threatened and endangered species

■ Compatible with wild populations

■ Coldwater, coolwater, warmwater

■ Saltwater recirculation

■ Broodstock management

■ Investigational New Animal Drug applications, investigations, monitoring

Fishery Evaluation

■ Experimental design

■ Statistical analysis

■ Hatchery product evaluation

■ Marking and tagging

■ Population dynamics

Fishery Technology Transfer

■ Problem solving

■ Applied research

Aquatic Species Health

■ Hatchery technical assistance

■ Hatchery troubleshooting

Genetic Conservation and Management

■ Gene pool maintenance program

■ Genetic analysis––stock identification, characterization, monitoring and evaluation

■ Broodstock genetic management

■ Breeding, rearing, maintenance, and reintroduction strategies

■ Genetic hazard and risk assessments

■ Genetic studies––effects of inbreeding, outbreeding, drift, selection, hybridization,

and domestication on genetic resources

Virginia

New York

Pennsylvania

New Hampshire

Maine

Region 5

Lamar

West

Virginia

Maryland Delaware

Rhode Island

Massachusetts

New Jersey

Vermont

Connecticut
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Objectives

■ To provide culture and management techniques for threatened, endangered, and

other imperiled aquatic species to ensure functional and genetic compatibility of

propagated species with existing wild populations

■ To provide technical assistance for implementation of approved management plans

for interjurisdictional fisheries, including developing methods to evaluate hatchery

products

■ To present scientific findings to the fisheries community in scientific journals,

special Center publications, workshops, scientific meetings, trade shows, and

Service training schools

■ To provide population assessment for interjurisdictional aquatic species

■ To provide fish culture technical assistance to aquaculturists in the Federal, State,

tribal, and private sectors

■ To evaluate alternative, cost effective methods of water use and reuse that will

conserve water resources and are compatible with propagation of threatened,

endangered, and imperiled aquatic species

■ To assist Federal Fish Hatcheries in the Northeast Region by collaborating with the

Regional Fish Health Center in providing technical assistance on solving fish health

related problems

■ To apply genetic methods and theory to enhance the fish restoration programs,

including aspects of artificial propagation and stocking, and management of captive

broodstock and interjurisdictional fishery resources

Address

Street Address: Northeast Fishery Center

308 Washington Avenue

Lamar, PA 16848

Mailing Address: Lamar Fish Technology Center

P.O. Box 75

Lamar, PA 16848 

Telephone: 570/726 4247 

Fax: 570/726 7247 

Web Address: http://fisheries.fws.gov/ftc/ftcne.htm

Email: tina_stamper@fws.gov

*Note: The Lamar FTC is part of the Northeast Fishery Center complex, which also

includes a Fish Health Center and National Fish Hatchery.

Lamar Fish Technology Center*
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Technical Staff & Expertise

Center Director

■ Atlantic salmon culture

■ Program administration/development 

■ Hatchery operations 

Fishery Biologist (Section Chief)

■ Warmwater fish culture

■ Coolwater fish culture

■ Coldwater fish culture

■ Saltwater recirculation 

Fishery Biologist 

■ Sturgeon culture

■ Water chemistry

■ Saltwater recirculation

■ Wetland development 

Ecologist (Section Chief)

■ Experimental design

■ Statistical analyses

■ Population dynamics

■ Impacts on wild populations

■ Aquatic species interactions 

Fishery Biologist 

■ Investigational New Animal Drug applications, field investigations, and monitoring

■ Coldwater fish culture

■ Coolwater fish culture

■ Interpretive programs 

Lamar Fish Technology Center
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Mora Fish Technology Center

Top left: Trout broodstock. 

Top right: Recirculating system water filter. 

Bottom left: Quarantine tanks. 

Bottom right: Rearing tanks.

All photos USFWS
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Areas of Specialization

Aquatic Species Culture

■ Growth and production in warmwater and coldwater 

■ Broodfish development

■ Transport and handling

■ Quarantine and health management 

Water Reuse

■ Environment and bioengineering

■ Physiology, toxicology and water quality

■ Performance tests

■ Disease treatment protocols

■ Aeration and oxygenation 

Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery

■ Production for population restoration

■ Specialized and modified culture techniques

■ Fitness and performance tests

■ Broodfish management

■ Diets for larval fishes 

Fishery Technology Transfer

■ Technical assistance for hatchery modifications

■ Water reuse system modifications

■ Genetic analyses and monitoring

■ Genetic protocols and policies 

Mora Fish Technology Center

Texas

New Mexico

Arizona

Oklahoma

Region 2 

Mora
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Objectives

■ To provide national and international fish culture, aquaculture technology, and

propagation evaluation

■ To conserve genetic resources through genetic initiatives, management guidelines,

and protocols

■ To provide national and international water conservation technology and high

density fish production with limited water

■ To provide applied research and development for recovery and restoration of Rio

Grande cutthroat trout, Gila trout, razorback sucker, bonytail, and other species

■ To provide technical expertise in genetics, fish propagation techniques, water

conservation and reuse technology to benefit fish culture of native and threatened

and endangered species

■ To develop new and innovative fish culture technologies to produce quality fish for

conservation and management programs

■ To provide leadership in the management of fishery resources through the

assessment and evaluation of hatchery products

■ To work with various Federal and State agencies, tribal, sport, and conservation

groups to provide fishery resources for the present and the future

Address

Street Address: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Mora Fish Technology Center

2 miles north of NM518 on NM434

Mora, NM 87732

Mailing Address: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Mora Fish Technology Center

P.O. Box 689

Mora, New Mexico 87732

Telephone: 505/387 6022 

Fax: 505/387 9030

Email: FW2_FR_Mora@fws.gov 

Web address: http://fisheries.fws.gov/FTC/FTCmora.htm

Mora Fish Technology Center
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Technical Staff & Expertise

Center Director

■ Genetics and fish culture of sport, threatened, and endangered fishes

■ Physiology, transport, handling, and stress reduction of fishes

■ Hatchery product evaluation, performance testing, and integrated fisheries

management

■ Water reuse and conservation technologies

Assistant Center Director

■ Program management and development

■ Personnel management and development

■ Performance and fitness testing

■ Water reuse technology development 

Water Quality Chemist

■ Water chemistry

■ Disinfection and sterilization

■ Water recirculation

■ Water conservation 

Biostatistician

■ Experimental and sampling design

■ Statistical applications

■ Data analyses

■ Technical hatchery outreach 

Fishery Biologist

■ Rio Grande cutthroat trout culture

■ Bonytail culture

■ Gila trout culture

■ Water management 

Fish Culturist

■ Rio Grande cutthroat trout culture

■ Bonytail culture

■ Gila trout culture

■ Water management

Bioengineer

■ System design and development

■ Stress mitigation

■ Water conservation 

Fisheries Health Specialist

■ Disease diagnostics and treatment

■ Wild population surveys

■ Disease prevention technologies 

Fish Culturist

■ Fish quarantine

■ Fish culture development

■ Fish culture 

Maintenance Supervisor

■ Electrical system development

■ Systems modifications

■ Water systems analyses 

Mora Fish Technology Center
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San Marcos Fish Technology Center

Top left: Texas wildrice with wind-pollinated flowers. 

Top right: Zooplankton harvester developed by San Marcos Technology Center staff members. 

Bottom left: Texas blind salamander. 

Bottom right: Southwest Texas State University Biology Department undergraduate students, part of San Marcos diversity program, observing

endangered fountain darters in aquarium. 

All photos USFWS
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Areas of Specialization

Aquatic Species Refugia

■ Fishes, salamanders, aquatic plants, aquatic invertebrates 

Aquatic Species Culture 

■ Broodstock development 

■ Spawning methodology 

■ Specialized egg incubation techniques

■ Life history

■ Live food production 

Plant Management 

■ Aquatic plant culture 

■ Aquatic plant restoration

■ Aquatic plant control

■ Native plant culture

■ Prairie restoration 

Rearing System Design

■ Small-scale reuse 

■ Manipulation of dissolved gases 

■ Non-traditional biofiltration 

■ Artificial habitat development 

Education and Outreach

■ Graduate student training and research

■ Community partnership development

■ Nuisance species awareness 

Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery 

■ Recovery planning

■ Habitat-related research

■ Emergency response planning 

San Marcos Fish Technology Center

Texas

New Mexico Arizona

Oklahoma

Region 2 

San Marcos
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Objectives

■ To collect, maintain, and propagate Texas wildrice, salamanders, fish and

invertebrates as outlined in the USFWS San Marcos/Comal/Edwards Aquifer Rare,

Threatened, and Endangered Species Contingency Plan 

■ To conduct research on life history, ecological requirements, genetics, and culture

■ To conduct research on restocking refugium species 

■ To collect biological information on the region’s aquatic biological resources

■ To troubleshoot problems at other hatcheries

■ To train hatchery personnel, graduate students, and community groups 

■ To present research findings to aquatic community through peer reviewed

publications

Address 

Street Address: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

National Fish Hatchery & Technology Center

500 East McCarty Lane 

San Marcos, TX 78666

Mailing Address: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

National Fish Hatchery & Technology Center

500 East McCarty Lane 

San Marcos, TX 78666

Telephone: 512/353 0011

Fax: 512/353 0856 

Web Address: http://fisheries.fws.gov/FTC/FTCsanmrs.htm

Email: fw2_fr_sanmarcos@fws.gov

San Marcos Fish Technology Center
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Technical Staff and Expertise

Center Director

■ Program management and development 

■ Fish feeds and nutrition 

■ Darter life history and culture

■ Fish reproduction manipulation 

■ Centrarchid culture 

Fishery Biologist

■ Invertebrate culture 

■ Salamander culture

■ Fish culture

■ Experimental design/statistics

■ Computer technical support 

Biological Technician

■ Stream ecology

■ Invertebrate biology

■ Reuse system modification 

Plant Ecologist

■ Native terrestrial plant culture

■ Aquatic plant culture

■ Aquatic habitat restoration 

■ Prairie restoration 

■ Plant collections 

■ Outreach programs and partnerships 

San Marcos Fish Technology Center
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Warm Springs Fish Technology Center

Top left: Sturgeon egg staging. 

Top right: Removing eggs.

Bottom left: Paddlefish. 

Bottom right: Checking blood sample. 

All photos USFWS
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Areas of Specialization

Aquatic Species Culture

■ Propagation and refugia 

■ Water treatment and reuse

■ Survival and performance

■ Broodstock management transport and handling 

Fishery Technology Transfer

■ Techniques for threatened and endangered species

■ Cryopreservation of gametes

■ Reproductive physiology

■ Genetic management

■ Population management 

Aquatic Species Health

■ Wild fish populations

■ Alternatives to drugs

■ Improved diagnostics

■ Fish nutrition and health

■ Contaminants 

Fishery Evaluation

■ Recovery and restoration

■ Life history requirements 

■ Investigational New Animal Drug monitoring and application

■ Hatchery product evaluation

■ Experimental design 

Warm Springs Fish Technology Center

Arkansas

Region 4

Tennessee

North Carolina

Georgia

Florida

Alabama

Louisiana

Kentucky

Mississippi

South Carolina

Warm

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Objectives

■ To develop fish management and culture methods for depleted native fishes, and

other aquatic species, with particular focus on interjurisdictional freshwater and

estuarine species

■ To develop methods for evaluating and improving the survival and performance of

hatchery reared species

■ To determine abundance, distribution, life history, and environmental impediments

for assessing depleted fish populations, as part of a management plan for restoring

aquatic species, including important recreational fisheries

■ To develop innocuous alternatives to traditional fishery drugs and chemicals

■ To evaluate water treatment technologies with emphasis on water conservation and

physiological requirements of fish

■ To develop and apply cryogenic techniques used for reproductive biology, as applied

to recovery and restoration of depleted fish populations

■ To develop improved culture techniques for captive refugia, as well as new methods

for assessment and enhancement of post-stocking survival of native threatened or

endangered aquatic species

■ To develop new non-lethal diagnostic sampling techniques to assess the health of

fish and fish populations, as part of a national initiative to characterize the health

status of our native fishes in the wild

■ To establish a gene-bank for retaining important genetic material as needed for the

continued protection of valued aquatic biological resources in the southeast

■ To present scientific findings to aquatic resource community, through publication in

scientific journals, FWS documents, and presentations at technical workshops, and

institutions of higher education

Address

Street Address: Warm Springs Regional Fisheries Center

5308 Spring Street

Warm Springs, GA 31830

Mailing Address: Warm Springs Regional Fisheries Center

5308 Spring Street

Warm Springs, GA 31830

Telephone: 706/655 3382 

Fax: 706/655 9034

Web Address: http://fisheries.fws.gov/FTC/FTCwarms.htm

Email: R4FR_WSGA@fws.gov

*Note: The Warm Springs FTC is part of the Warm Springs Regional Fisheries

Center, which also includes a Fish Health Center and two National Fish Hatcheries

(Warm Springs and Bear’s Bluff.)

Warm Springs Fish Technology Center*
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Technical Staff & Expertise

Center Director 

■ Fishery biology

■ Water quality

■ Bioengineering 

Fishery Biologist 

■ Fish Culture––warm and coldwater species

■ Broodstock development

■ Fish transport and handling

Genetics Specialist 

■ Regional fishery support

■ Population genetics

■ Genetic techniques 

Fishery Biologist 

■ Reproductive biology

■ Cryogenic techniques

■ Gene-banking

Fishery Biologist 

■ Quality assurance/quality control

■ Water quality

■ Water treatment systems

Warm Springs Fish Technology Center
U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

1 800/344 WILD

www.fws.gov

May 2002