• Completed in 2006, it is one of the newest and most advanced hatcheries in the U.S.
• Located southeast of Glasgow on the banks of the Missouri River below Fort Peck Dam on land leased from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that designed and built the facility.
• Comprises nearly 100 acres of fish-rearing ponds and a 22,000-square-foot state-of-the-art production facility.
• Capable of annually raising 20 million walleye fry and 2 million walleye fingerlings.
• About 27,000 northern pike and 180,000 Chinook salmon were recently raised at the hatchery.
• Once walleyes are stocked, the Fort Peck hatchery sits virtually empty for several months.
• Can also produce tiger muskies, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, channel catfish, sauger, and endangered pallid sturgeon.
• Rainbow trout and lake trout, which by Montana law cannot be produced at the hatchery at this time, are capable of being raised there without disrupting or displacing any warm water fish production.

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