The club gets grants from the Ministry of Natural Resources to help boost the walleye population in our area. late April we head out to meet at the lake with a Fyke trap net and or the shocker boat that will help us collect the walleye to bring back to the club house. Once we have the walleye we bring them to the clubhouse and we separate the females from the males and keep them in big holding tanks till the are ready to spawn. Once the walleye are ready to spawn, we weigh the fish to determines the number of eggs we will get. The average is 10,000 eggs per pound of fish. We then extract the eggs from the females and milk the males into a big bowl. We then mix everything together gently with a turkey feather. We add mud to harden the eggs and then rinse them off. After this process is done the eggs go in the beakers for incubation/growing period of roughly 21 days. As the fry hatch they swim to the top of the beakers where we gather them and count them. The average is 15,000 fry per 100ml of water. After we are done counting them we put them in our ponds to grow into fingerlings. Once the fingerlings are big enough, we drain each pond one-by-one so that the fingerlings can be collected in one area. We then separate and count the fingerlings in each pond and put then in aerated tanks to be delivered to their new homes in local lakes in our area. The same areas where we took them from.

 

Our goal is to enhance walleye survival rates in efforts to replenish natural populations.

A female walleye has approximately 10,000 eggs per pound of fish

here's an example of the difference we strive to achieve.

In the wild: 100,000 eggs

at 2% lake survival rate = 2,000 fish

 

In the hatchery: 100,000

at 85% incubation survival rate = 85,000 fry stage

at 20% lake survival rate = 17,000 fish

 

85,000 fry stage

at 50% pond survival rate = 42,000 fingerlings stage 

at 80% lake survival rate = 34,000

 

Our current facility capacity is 2.5 million eggs with the potential of achieving 425,000 fish from fry stage to lake survival rate.

Local lakes are stocked as per an approved list from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.

  • 15,000 fry in 100 ml
  • 2023 season hatchery
  • 3 ponds
  • baby fish under a microscope zoomed in
  • counting fingerlings
  • draining pond 4
  • eggs in incutors at the hatchery
  • eggs under a microscope
  • female walleye full of eggs
  • female walleye tank
  • filling holding tanks
  • Fish incubation
  • fyke trap net
  • gathering fish and tadpoles for sorting
  • incubators and holding tanks
  • male walleye tank
  • Male walleye
  • Milking females and male walleye
  • milking station set up
  • pond 4
  • Pouring eggs in cooler for transport
  • Pouring fertalised eggs in beakers
  • pouring in Koalin clay to harden the eggs
  • rinsing and draining clay
  • seperating fingerlings from tadpoles
  • seperating fish from tadpoles
  • set up trap net
  • Setting up trap net
  • Shocker boat
  • Sorting female and male walleye
  • stirring eggs and sperm with a turkey feather
  • taking fish out of the trap net
  • volunteers waiting till night fall
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