Drought Forces Closure Of Texas' Largest Fish Hatchery
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Times and Climate Change
Drought Forces Closure Of Texas' Largest Fish Hatchery
Texas wildlife officials have closed one of the state's five fish
hatcheries because of lack of water from the ongoing drought.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department fish hatcheries director Todd
Engeling said Thursday in a news release that two lakes that feed
Dundee State Fish Hatchery southwest of Wichita Falls have not
gotten the good rains enjoyed recently in other parts of the
state.
The release says Lake Kemp is 1 foot above the level at which the
hatchery loses authorization to use water from the lake.
The 97 ponds at Dundee, where striped bass and hybrid striped bass
are primarily produced, represent 34 percent of Texas' available
capacity for freshwater fish production.
Production of the fish will shift to other facilities.