As seen above, the fry hatching from the incubated eggs are quite small. The fry then move from their incubation jar into the blue fry tank seen in the top photo. If EPA feels there are enough fry hatched to stock a pond, the fry are collected from the blue fry tank, measured in water using a displacement method, and then poured into a fry counter to obtain a more accurate number of hatched fish. EPA estimates their return rate of eggs hatching into fry for 2022 was 60-65%. The first fry harvest was on May 13th, 2022. This harvest allowed EPA staff to stock the first of their four ponds. Two additional ponds were stocked on May 15th, 2022. EPA harvested small fingerlings from Pond 1 on June 30th. These fish were moved into Pond 3 and Beaver Dam Lake in Barron County, Wisconsin. A total of 39,740 small fingerlings were stocked into Beaver Dam Lake.
Pond 2 was harvested on July 6th, 2022. These fingerlings were put into North Sand Lake (27,982 fingerlings) and Lipsett Lake (14,275 fingerlings), both in Burnett County.Â
Pond 4 was harvested on July 7th, 2022. These fingerlings went into Big Butternut Lake in Polk County (15,525 fingerlings) and Sand Lake in Barron County (23,254 fingerlings).
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