Fingerling red drum harvested and ready to be stocked into the wild.

Two hands holding very small juvenile red drum fish with a net full in the background
Photo By/Credit

Gena Lyons/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
03/24/2022
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
These juvenile red drum are about 30 days old and harvested from the hatchery's earth ponds. The fingerlings are then stocked into the wild.
Facility
Bears Bluff National Fish Hatchery
Ecosystem
Marine
Species
Sciaenops ocellatus
Subject tags
Agriculture
Fish hatcheries
Fisheries management
Marine fish
Sport fishing