Bears Bluff National Fish Hatchery - Wadmalaw Island - SC
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carolina1
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Bears Bluff National Fish Hatchery is a unit of the Warm Springs Fish Technology Center, a component of the Warm Springs Regional Fisheries Center, Warm Springs, Georgia
Waymark Code: WM4K88
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 09/02/2008
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Bears Bluff National Fish Hatchery is a unit of the Warm Springs Fish Technology Center, a component of the Warm Springs Regional Fisheries Center, Warm Springs, Georgia.
Area consists of 31 acres bordering the Edisto River south of Charleston, South Carolina.
Facilities include the world’s largest shortnose sturgeon broodstock holding/spawning facility; eight recirculated intensive culture/holding systems; a large recirculated egg incubation/larval rearing system; three large tanks for holding larger fish species; numerous holding and intensive rearing tanks; and six salt and freshwater ponds.
Shortnose sturgeon: 5-year classes of progeny of wild stock are held on station for study activities, addressing reproduction, culture, tagging and hatchery techniques.
Atlantic sturgeon: initiating activities to address questions on reproduction and culture.
Red drum: Batch-cultured in saltwater ponds, marked and released into South Carolina waters.
Station has flexible and unique capabilities available to propagate and study most freshwater and saltwater aquatic species found in South Atlantic Coastal Region
Type of Facility: Fish Hatchery
Management Agency: National/Federal Government
Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]
Offers Tours: yes
Has a Vistor Center: Not Listed
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