Projects and Research
National Fish Hatcheries raise fish and other aquatic species – like crayfish and mussels - to help restore and sustain important fish and other aquatic species for the benefit of the American people. Freshwater mussels play very important roles in our rivers and lakes filtering the water and creating habitat for fish and aquatic insects fish like to eat. With declining fish populations and declining freshwater mussel populations becoming prevalent across the world, fish hatchery operations are important than ever.
Jackson National Fish Hatchery is part of a regional effort to establish and maintain a refugia population of the endangered Kendall Warm Springs dace. Along with Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery, USFWS Wyoming Ecological Services, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Bridger-Teton National Forest we are helping to mitigate the decline of the very small and isolated dace.