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Brown Trout Release
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Learn about the Elkhart Conservation Club's vital work to protect and restore brown trout populations in the Michiana region. See how the club raise the trout from eggs to being big enough for release in local cold water streams. The Elkhart Conservation Club is making a positive impact on local trout populations and enhancing recreational opportunities for anglers.
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Outdoor Elements
Brown Trout Release
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Learn about the Elkhart Conservation Club's vital work to protect and restore brown trout populations in the Michiana region. See how the club raise the trout from eggs to being big enough for release in local cold water streams. The Elkhart Conservation Club is making a positive impact on local trout populations and enhancing recreational opportunities for anglers.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipHi, I'm BJ Thompson, I'm with the Elkhart Conservation Club here in Elkhart County.
We are adjacent to the Cobus Creek that runs through the club grounds.
And we have here at the club a number of different programs that are to a that are nature friendly, many trails.
And we have different programs like invasive species, species collection, and those are wildflowers that are rare.
We try to nurture those, but today we would like to talk about our hatchery program.
We this year we will release about 25,000 three to six inch Brown Trout into coldwater creeks in the Michiana area.
We order these trout by eggs.
Almost a year ago they came out of Wyoming and we brought them here to the hatchery.
At the Conservation Club.
We have our own cold water hatchery and concrete tanks.
They are fed with ground water from a four inch well.
We feed them that water constantly.
24/7, 365.
And we also need to aerate them because they do need a lot of oxygen dissolved into the water.
These creeks that we release them into are also coldwater creeks, and they also have a certain level of dissolved oxygen, which the brown trout require.
Once we receive the fish eggs, we then put them into our rearing trays.
Within the hatchery itself.
We flow fresh water over them constantly.
We're constantly looking at them to clear away any diseases or fungus that might begin to grow after some weeks of growth, they will begin to evolve from eggs to an eye stage, and from that then they will begin to get a little tiny tail on them and they will begin to swim a little bit.
So as they evolve and as they grow, we move them into a larger tank or swim up tank and we continue to care for them during that process as they grow and as they grow, we evolve them and step them up to different tanks until we get them to the final tank and we begin to feed them.
Previously, we didn't have to feed them because of the embryo that they were born with would sustain them, that they would feed off of that and that's how they would get their sustenance.
But as they would grow into fry and into visible size fish and we put them into the final tank, we then have an automatic feeder and then we feed them fish food.
So just recently we've come to the point where it's time to release them.
Still having about we had some loss, but we're about 24 or 25,000 fish that are between three and six inches.
There are beautiful fish, gorgeous fish, and we've had tremendous success this year.
So now we will put them into a tank that has a portable aerator, very important that we keep the water cold and aerated.
They must have their oxygen.
So we will put them in a tank with a portable aerator and we will take them out to various points within the community and put these fish back in to various points and to coldwater creeks within the community, within this area.
And we'll be doing that.
We'll spread it out.
Oh, 25,000.
We'll probably spread it out within probably five different points of distribution and try to divide it up fairly equally.
That, of course, is our hope that they will survive as much as possible and within 3 to 3 years they should come of a stage where they will be able to reproduce and they will then sustain that naturally as we are able to continue our hatchery program and continue to replenish their numbers into these creeks and our community.
We're very grateful that we have this opportunity to work with Mother Nature and in our community we have these beautiful grounds, this beautiful property, this beautiful waterway, and we want to help sustain that.
We want to help nurture that.
We have a number of different programs.
We have trails throughout our property where people can go and enjoy the property, enjoy nature and look around and enjoy the wildlife and and the flora, the Elkhart Conservation Club and all that we have to offer is one of the true hidden gems of the Michiana community.
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