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Family fun at Kootenay Trout Hatchery
A little wet weather didn’t deter the fun at Kootenay Trout Hatchery on Saturday, July 9.
A steady stream of visitors visited the hatchery for tours, food, music, family fun and more, part of a kick off to summer event staged by staff during the afternoon.
The Kootenay Trout Hatchery, the second largest in B.C., rears up to three million baby trout each year and provides research facilities for fisheries biologists.
The species raised in the facility to enhance recreational fishing opportunities are Rainbow, Cutthroat trout and Brook Char. Lake throughout the province are stocked with the trout raised at the facility.
In addition, red-listed White Sturgeon are raised at the Bull River facility for conservation purposes.
Kootenay Trout Hatchery, which turned 50 earlier this year, is 45 kilometres east of Cranbrook and 55 km west of Fernie, on the east side of the Kootenay River, just off the Wardner-Bull River Road.
A tour guide is on hand daily from May through August. An extensive interpretive area with aquaria, educational models and displays is open every day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for self-guided tours.
Photos by Ian Cobb and Carrie Schafer/e-KNOW
