Iron River National Fish Hatchery

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Iron River National Fish Hatchery was established in 1979 to produce lake trout for interagency restoration programs in the upper Great Lakes and to serve as a lake trout broodstock broodstock
The reproductively mature adults in a population that breed (or spawn) and produce more individuals (offspring or progeny).

Learn more about broodstock facility. Currently, the hatchery produces eggs for the National Broodstock Program, rears lake trout and brook trout for interagency restoration programs in lakes Michigan, Huron and Superior and supplies fish and eggs for research and tribal programs. We also manage a program to isolate future lake trout and brook trout broodstock through collection of gametes from wild populations located in Lake Superior and Lewis Lake in Yellowstone National Park.