Post on 31-Jul-2020
Overview of Fish Stocking on Reservations in Region 6
Presented at Tribal Leadership Roundtable Meeting
by US Fish and Wildlife Service
Fish and Aquatic Conservation Program
Doug Frugé Program Supervisor (CO, UT, WY)
303-236-4215 doug_fruge@fws.gov
Summary of Activities 2012-2014 • Ten National Fish Hatcheries stocked 3,227,200 fish weighing
206,395 pounds on 18 reservations in our Region – 2012 1,088,230 83,197 lb – 2013 1,032,760 64,151 lb – 2014 1,106,210 59,047 lb
• Ennis NFH provided 322,880 rainbow trout eggs to the Ute Tribal Fish Hatchery
• Ennis NFH provided 1,507,110 rainbow trout eggs to two Tribal Fish Hatcheries outside our region
• Saratoga NFH provided 155,540 brown trout eggs to the Ute Tribal Fish Hatchery in our Region
Assiniboine and Sioux (Fort Peck - Montana)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 10,320 1,428 7.0 Creston 2013 Rainbow Trout 25,600 2,202 8.5 Creston 2014 Rainbow Trout 19,630 1,666 6.0 Creston
Blackfeet (Montana)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 430,460 30,009 6.4 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 20,610 393 4.0 Creston
2013 Rainbow Trout 367,280 26,490 6.1 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 38,510 677 3.9 Creston
2014 Rainbow Trout 373,520 29,110 6.4 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 42,760 787 3.8 Creston
Confederated Salish and Kootenai (Flathead - Montana)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 146,730 12,700 8.0 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 83,770 265 2.0 Creston
2013 Rainbow Trout 111,610 7,905 7.7 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 100,430 698 2.2 Creston
2014 Rainbow Trout 59,190 4,792 7.6 Creston Westslope Cutthroat Trout 42,250 529 2.7 Creston
Crow (Montana)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 18,040 2,499 7.2 Creston 2013 Rainbow Trout 26,990 2,499 6.2 Creston
Rainbow Trout 90 195 18.5 Ennis 2014 Rainbow Trout 29,163 2,499 6.0 Creston
Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho (Wind River - Wyoming)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 28,970 5,564 8.0 Jones Hole
Sauger 500 3 2.6 Garrison Dam
Snake River Cutthroat Trout 14,000 2,118 7.5 Jackson
2013 Rainbow Trout 28,870 5,315 6.8 Jones Hole
Sauger 118,890 290 2.0 Garrison Dam
Snake River Cutthroat Trout 19,460 869 3.6 Jackson
2014 Rainbow Trout 15,350 1,367 5.6 Jones Hole
Sauger 258,900 538 2.1 Garrison Dam
Snake River Cutthroat Trout 11,690 1,875 7.6 Jackson
Tiger Trout 1,194 69 5.2 Jones Hole
Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout 16,670 3,333 8.3 Saratoga
Gros Ventre and Assiniboine (Fort Belknap – Montana)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 17,850 2,499 7.1 Creston 2013 Rainbow Trout 51,590 4,344 6.2 Creston
Rainbow Trout 3,460 2,457 15.4 Ennis 2014 Rainbow Trout 41,110 3,934 6.9 Ennis
Kickapoo (Kansas)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2013 Black Crappie 2,650 8 1.6 Gavins Point Bluegill 9,650 21 1.5 Gavins Point
Lower Brule Sioux (Lower Brule – South Dakota)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Yellow Perch 30,230 44 1.7 Gavins Point
Northern Cheyenne (Montana)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2013 Rainbow Trout 5,440 563 7.6 Creston 2014 Rainbow Trout 3,943 448 7.1 Creston
Oglala Sioux (Pine Ridge – South Dakota)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 1,440 720 11.4 Gavins Point 2013 Bluegill 6,500 10 1.3 Gavins Point
Largemouth Bass 17,226 87 2.2 Gavins Point Rainbow Trout 1,500 428 9.4 Gavins Point
2014 Rainbow Trout 1,790 460 9.1 Gavins Point Smallmouth Bass 5,500 17 1.9 Gavins Point
Rocky Boy’s Chippewa (Montana)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 37,510 5,355 7.2 Creston 2013 Rainbow Trout 44,450 4,284 6.2 Creston 2014 Rainbow Trout 28,790 2,499 6.1 Creston
Rosebud Sioux (South Dakota)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 1,870 1,085 12.4 Gavins Point Walleye 16,650 20 1.6 Gavins Point Yellow Perch 52,250 80 1.7 Gavins Point
2013 Rainbow Trout 2,920 871 9.5 Gavins Point Walleye 16,230 17 1.5 Gavins Point Yellow Perch 4,500 5 1.5 Gavins Point
2014 Rainbow Trout 3,720 1,923 11.1 DC Booth Rainbow Trout 3,630 993 9.4 Gavins Point Walleye 28,590 30 1.5 Gavins Point Yellow Perch 40,820 55 1.7 Gavins Point
Spirit Lake Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux (Fort Totten – North Dakota)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Walleye 15,400 14 1.5 Garrison Dam 2013 Walleye 15,200 17 1.6 Garrison Dam 2014 Northern Pike 9,000 8 1.7 Valley City
Largemouth Bass 10,000 8 1.2 Valley City
Southern Ute (Colorado)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 20,560 6,514 9.1 Hotchkiss 2013 Rainbow Trout 13,730 3,899 8.9 Hotchkiss 2014 Rainbow Trout 5,170 2,067 10.0 Hotchkiss
Turtle Mountain Chippewa (North Dakota)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Rainbow Trout 5,000 11 2.3 Valley City 2014 Walleye 53,850 41 1.4 Garrison Dam
Ute (Uintah and Ouray - Utah)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Brown Trout 52,560 3,031 4.2 Jones Hole Lake Trout 125 868 26.1 Saratoga Rainbow Trout 33,390 7,865 8.7 Jones Hole
2013* 2014*
* Ute Tribal Fish Hatchery took over responsibility for stocking Ute tribal waters in 2013.
Yankton Sioux (South Dakota)
Year Species Number Weight (lb)
Size (in)
National Fish Hatchery
2012 Yellow Perch 50,000 113 2.0 Gavins Point
Eggs Provided to Tribal Fish Hatcheries - 2012
Tribal Fish Hatchery Species Number of Eggs
National Fish Hatchery
Cherokee (NC) Rainbow Trout 515,910 Ennis Lac du Flambeau Chippewa (WI) Brown Trout 52,120 Saratoga
Rainbow Trout 151,230 Ennis Ute (UT) Rainbow Trout 144,060 Ennis
Eggs Provided to Tribal Fish Hatcheries - 2013
Tribal Fish Hatchery Species Number of Eggs
National Fish Hatchery
Cherokee (NC) Rainbow Trout 362,190 Ennis Lac du Flambeau Chippewa (WI) Brown Trout 51,560 Saratoga
Rainbow Trout 151,210 Ennis Ute (UT) Rainbow Trout 85,200 Ennis
Eggs Provided to Tribal Fish Hatcheries - 2014
Tribal Fish Hatchery Species Number of Eggs
National Fish Hatchery
Cherokee (NC) Rainbow Trout 180,650 Ennis Lac du Flambeau Chippewa (WI) Brown Trout 51,850 Saratoga
Rainbow Trout 145,930 Ennis Ute (UT) Brown Trout 61,820 Saratoga
Rainbow Trout 93,620 Ennis
Bozeman Fish Health Center • Annually inspects all National Fish Hatcheries to assure disease-free
fish and eggs are stocked or transferred to other hatcheries • Conducts annual fish health inspection for the Ute Tribal Fish
Hatchery
National Fish Hatcheries
• Creston NFH (MT), Mark Maskill, 406-758-6868, mark_maskill@fws.gov
• DC Booth NFH (SD), Carlos Martinez, 605-642-7730, carlos_martinez@fws.gov
• Ennis NFH (MT), Connie Keeler-Foster, 406-682-4847, connie_keelerfoster@fws.gov
• Garrison Dam NFH (ND), Rob Holm, 701-654-7451, rob_holm@fws.gov
• Gavins Point NFH (SD), Jeff Powell, 605-665-3352, jeffrey_powell@fws.gov
• Hotchkiss NFH (CO), Adam Mendoza, 970-872-3170, adam_p_mendoza@fws.gov
National Fish Hatcheries (contd)
• Jackson NFH (WY), Liz Sunshine, 307-733-2510, elizabeth_sunshine@fws.gov
• Jones Hole NFH (UT), Kip Bottomley, 435-789-4481, richard_bottomley@fws.gov
• Leadville NFH (CO), Ed Stege, 719-486-0189, ed_stege@fws.gov • Ouray NFH (UT), Dave Schnoor, 435-789-4805,
karl_schnoor@fws.gov • Saratoga NFH (WY), Lee Bender, 307-326-5662,
lee_bender@fws.gov • Valley City NFH (ND), Kurt Eversman, 701-845-3482,
kurt_eversman@fws.gov