Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery























During our trip to Branson we stopped off at the Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery. It is the largest trout production facility in the Missouri Department of Conservation program. They provide over 700,000 catchable trout to Lake Taneycomo and surrounding lakes.

We began the tour by watching their educational video and then toured the outdoor aluminum/fiberglass tanks. There were twelve outdoor concrete raceways used for intermediate rearing, plus twenty outdoor concrete raceways for the adult trout.

The children enjoyed feeding the fish in the outdoor tanks. David even took us by the spot Grandmother and Granddaddy liked to fish on Lake Taneycomo with their friends from the Memorial Drive Church of Christ.

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