Visitors welcome daily at fish hatchery The Fountain Green State Fish Hatchery is open every day of the week for visitors, however, there are no self-guided or walk-in tours at this time. If you are interested in touring the hatchery, please call for an appointment the day before at (435) 445-3472. Tours are conducted from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The hatchery is located northwest of Fountain Green at 1600 West, Fish Hatchery Road. When traveling on Highway 132 between Nephi and Fountain Green watch for the signs just north of Fountain Green. There is a pretty good chance that anyone who plans or likes to go fishing in Utah will catch a fish that may have come from the hatchery. It all starts with thousands of eggs which hatch and become some of the thousands and thousands of fish swimming in tanks just waiting as they grow. It is truly fascinating to watch the fish in their various stages of growth. Raising fish is a year-round project and always in demand because most reservoir fisheries are heavily used and not able to sustain themselves through natural recruitment or reproduction of the fish in the pond. So the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) has implemented a management program dependent on stocking hatchery-reared fish statewide. The Fountain Green facility is just one of the division’s hatcheries, but it is also the only one that is open to the public year-round. The hatchery is a great location for the whole family to visit as it provides an opportunity to view some of Utah’s fish species close up and a sense of the work that must go into
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