Whirling Disease Detected at New Mexico Fish Hatchery

Whirling Disease Detected at New Mexico Fish Hatchery

Source: Associated Press

4/8/2023

New Mexico wildlife managers will have fewer rainbow trout to stock in rivers and streams around the state this spring after whirling disease was detected at a state hatchery where some of the fish are raised.

The state Game and Fish Department announced Friday that while the disease was found in only low levels at the Rock Lake State Fish Hatchery in eastern New Mexico, the agency will euthanize about 70,000 trout in the affected portions of the hatchery to reduce the chance of the disease spreading.

Rock Lake

Trout, Rainbow

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