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Visit Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery, Arizona
The Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and was constructed in 1959 to take advantage of the cold water flowing from Hoover Dam and raise rainbow trout. The hatchery stocked as many as 175,000 Rainbow trout per year at Willow Beach, below Davis Dam and and in waters on tribal lands along the Colorado river.
In 2013, vegetation clogged cold water intake pipes that brought water from the Colorado River causing the loss of nearly 61,000 trout in August and November of that year.
After a 3-year hiatus, Willow Beach National Fish hatchery began releasing 1,000 rainbow trout into the Colorado river near Willow beach marina every Friday starting Feb 3, 2017.
The hatchery also works with two endangered species, the bonytail chub and razorback sucker, and one candidate species, the relict leopard frog.
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Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery is located on the Arizona side of the Colorado River eleven miles below Hoover Dam, within Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
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