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Hatchery technicians are working on feeding the young salmon to help them survive the winter.

Our Crew is working on clipping the baby salmon’s adipose fins and tagging them.  We are also working on ponding the chums, moving them from the incubators to the salt water net pens.

The Eigil B came this week to help the hatchery release all of the young salmon into Chatham Strait.

Our crew has been hauling the coho salmon out near Chatham Strait for release this week.

Hatchery staff recently had some visitors, including AKI board members, Sitka admin staff, and even a couple of our associates. It was a fun (and very productive) visit! Here’s to more to come!

Port Armstrong is happy to be seeing some sunny weather.  This past weekend we got to visit with members of our Board.  It was a great weekend and we loved the company.  We have been seeing lots of sunshine this week and we have been seeing bears starting to emerge from hibernation.  We have lots …

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The hatchery technicians are transferring the baby pink salmon to the saltwater net pens.

Another day of winter at the hatchery. Hatchery technicians are working hard to shovel the snow, making it safer for everyone to do their jobs. 

Hatchery technicians are preparing the raceways for the baby coho salmon to be transferred from incubation.

The hatchery technicians are busy at work feeding the baby chum salmon. The salmon are fed constantly throughout the day.