ozarkhellbender
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- Apr 13, 2010
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- Location
- Newtonia, Missouri
- Country
- United States
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- Thomas
Now ya tell me! I went to that hatchery in December. I talked to the person there about hellbenders, but didn't think to ask if I could see the facility. They have a program for hellbenders where they try to give the young a head-start by hatching and raising them in captivity until they are a decent size, then releasing them. The eggs come from the wild though, they aren't CBing them. The hatchery is worth seeing, even if you don't get to see the hellbenders.
Yeah, the larvae they have right now were hatched from eggs they collected, but they have adults on station they are attempting to breed last time I was there. I was an intern at the Neosho National Fish Hatchery the summer of 2009 and I went up with some hatchery biologists to get a tour of the Shepherd of the Hills facility. I'm sure they wold give individuals a tour upon request, they are pretty nice up there.