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Neets Bay Hatchery - Summer Chum Egg-Take
NEETS BAY is a remote hatchery operated by SSRAA. Neets Bay is a remote site that you can only be reached by boat or plane from Ketchikan. It is our flagship facility, and supports one of the world's largest chum and coho returns. A number of people live at this remote site year around. The following picture show some of those folks in action during the summer chum egg-take.  Bill Lyden, hatchery manager, watching
the trap as summer chum broodstock fill a raceway at Neets
Bay.
.jpg) A hose adds oxygen and helps attract adult
summer chum to the fish lift during egg-take.
.jpg) Wayne Parsley (assistant hatchery manager
and "the old guy on-site") operating the fish lift during
summer chum egg-take.
%20(2).jpg) Al Seale "posing" for the camera after a
busy morning with the egg-take crew. The hatchery's
goal is to collect upwards of 120 million summer chum eggs and
30 million fall chum eggs.
.jpg) At Neets Bay we have Bobcats, trailers,
trucks, four-wheelers, three-wheelers, skiffs, seiners,
tenders, bikes and even a golf cart. This is a picture
of long time seasonal Micah Reynolds moving fertilized eggs
from the egg-take station to the hatchery by "Extra-tough."
.jpg) Matt Allen (near) and Jeremy Bethel rinsing
eggs. Millions of chum eggs will flow collectively
through these buckets during the egg-take season.
.jpg) Bill Lyden moving broodstock carcasses
from the egg-take station to the carcass barge.
.jpg) Part of the daily routine, Bill Lyden dumps carcasses into the carcass barge at
the Neets Bay dock.
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