Cleaning fish raceways at Entiat National Fish Hatchery

A Service employee in warm clothes pushes a long-handled vacuum cleaner through a fish raceway. An arch of netting covers the raceways, and snow is on the ground and hillside behind, with scattered pines indicating a dry region.
Photo By/Credit

Julia Pinnix/USFWS

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Public Domain
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Assistant Manager Travis Collier vacuums debris from the bottom of a raceway in March. Keeping young fish healthy means protection from predators (hence the nets overhead) and keeping their environment clean.
Facility
Entiat National Fish Hatchery
Subject tags
Anadromous fish
Buildings, facilities and structures
Fish hatcheries
Fishes
Maintenance