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The Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held a public hearing Wednesday evening at the hatchery regarding the Springfield Plateau Regional Restoration Plan. The objective of the plan is to compensate the public through environmental restoration for losses of natural resources that have been injured by releases of hazardous substances into the environment. This plan would include parts of Newton County. More information can be found at http://www.fws.gov/midwest/nrda/motristate/.
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Superintendent David Hendrix traveled to Kansas City Wednesday to pick up a delivery from the Blind Pony Fish Hatchery. A single brood stock pallid sturgeon caught in the Missouri River at River Mile marker 195.6 in the Booneville – Franklin Allen area was safely added to our existing brood stock after antibiotic and chemical treatments, bringing our count to 14 for brood stock. Approximately 350 pallid sturgeons will be moved this week from the old sturgeon building to the new for warmer water temperature and space. This will be their last holding spot until tagging in May and release into the Missouri River in June.
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The hatchery will be hosting “First Friday Coffee” tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. for the Chamber of Commerce.
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We have new fish carvings by Bill Nichols and other new items in our gift shop.
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Twenty-three P.A.R.E.N.T. Home School Group teachers and students from McDonald County were given a presentation and tour by biologist Jaime Pacheco on Tuesday. When asked if they would like to include further information for this column, one young member said “Tell them we had a blast”! We love smiling faces here at the hatchery.
Janice Eaton is the automation clerk at the Neosho National Fish Hatchery.
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held a public hearing Wednesday evening at the hatchery regarding the Springfield Plateau Regional Restoration Plan. The objective of the plan is to compensate the public through environmental restoration for losses of natural resources that have been injured by releases of hazardous substances into the environment. This plan would include parts of Newton County. More information can be found at http://www.fws.gov/midwest/nrda/motristate/.
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Superintendent David Hendrix traveled to Kansas City Wednesday to pick up a delivery from the Blind Pony Fish Hatchery. A single brood stock pallid sturgeon caught in the Missouri River at River Mile marker 195.6 in the Booneville – Franklin Allen area was safely added to our existing brood stock after antibiotic and chemical treatments, bringing our count to 14 for brood stock. Approximately 350 pallid sturgeons will be moved this week from the old sturgeon building to the new for warmer water temperature and space. This will be their last holding spot until tagging in May and release into the Missouri River in June.
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The hatchery will be hosting “First Friday Coffee” tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. for the Chamber of Commerce.
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We have new fish carvings by Bill Nichols and other new items in our gift shop.
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Twenty-three P.A.R.E.N.T. Home School Group teachers and students from McDonald County were given a presentation and tour by biologist Jaime Pacheco on Tuesday. When asked if they would like to include further information for this column, one young member said “Tell them we had a blast”! We love smiling faces here at the hatchery.
Janice Eaton is the automation clerk at the Neosho National Fish Hatchery.
