Power Outage at Jackson National Fish Hatchery

June 16, 2011 By: Marshall Cutchin

Reuters reported last night that a power outage at the Jackson National Fish Hatchery in Wyoming left about 150,000 Snake River fine-spotted cutthroat trout dead.  “The die-off was a tough break for a hatchery established to make up for losses in fish habitat and reproduction with the building of the Palisades Reservoir….”