fish hatchery

American  

noun

1. a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.

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Etymology

Origin of fish hatchery

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

The pond dried up in the 1970s after two wells were drilled as part of an expansion of the nearby fish hatchery at Fish Springs, and as pumping lowered the water table, Williams said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2025

About 25,525 smolts that were thrown onto the creek banks “were not able to flop down into the water,” Andrew Gibbs, the department’s fish hatchery coordinator for eastern Oregon, said in an interview on Wednesday.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2024

The smallest of the four dams, Copco 2, will come down in 2023, and crews will improve roads and bridges, move a municipal water line, and build a new fish hatchery.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2023

The park service also contracted to build an $18 million fish hatchery, in part, to provide a safe place to curate populations of threatened fish while sediment released by dam removal coursed through the river.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2016

“The lunkers from the fish hatchery, 1 presume?”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols