We are involved in a number of fishery programs and partnerships in each of the states within Region 3. Click on the links or map below to access activities by state or station.
States: Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Michigan • Minnesota • Missouri • Ohio • Wisconsin
Offices: National
Fish Hatcheries • Fishery
Resources Offices • Fish
Health Center • Coordination
Offices • Biological
Stations
Fishery Activities by State
- Electrical barrier aquatic nuisance species prevention in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal
- Round goby and Asian carp monitoring in the Illinois Waterway
- Asian carp monitoring on the Mississippi River
- Sea lamprey control and monitoring/assessment
- Shovelnose sturgeon monitoring, tagging, and movement in the Ohio and Wabash Rivers
- Riparian habitat restoration on Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
- Examination of the effects of dredge spoil on habitat and fish of the Mississippi River
Fishery Stations in Illinois- Carterville Fishery Resources Office • Large Rivers Coordination Office
- Sea lamprey control and monitoring/assessment
- Lake trout restoration in Indiana waters of Lake Michigan
No Fishery Stations are located in Indiana.
Under Construction
Fishery Stations in Iowa- Large Rivers Coordination Office
- Aquatic habitat restoration for fish passage at road stream crossings, on private lands with the Partners for fish and wildlife program
- Lake trout restoration through broodstock rearing and spawning, juvenile rearing and tagging, stocking, and strain studies
- Lake sturgeon investigations
- Aquatic nuisance species monitoring and eurasian ruffe control
- Sea lamprey management through chemical control and male sterilization
- Sea lamprey assessment monitoring
- Native American trust assistance lake whitefish assessments
- Coaster brook trout activities in Michigan waters of Lake Superior
Fishery Stations in Michigan- Alpena Fishery Resources Office • Jordan River National Fish Hatchery • Pendills Creek/Sullivan Creek National Fish Hatchery Complex • Great Lakes Coordination Office • Marquette Biological Station • Ludington Biological Station
- Endangered mussel restoration for Winged Maple Leaf Mussels in the St. Croix River
- Assistance with walleye marking study on Mille Lacs Lake
- Aquatic nuisance species monitoring and assessment
- Sea lamprey control and monitoring/assessment
- Zebra mussel investigations in the St. Croix River
- Native American trust activities
- Fish passage restoration on Wild Rice River and on Grand Portage Indian Reservation to reintroduce spawning territory for coaster brook trout
- Wild fish health surveys on the Upper Mississippi River
Fishery Stations in Minnesota- Region 3 Regional Fisheries
- Endangered pallid sturgeon rearing, tagging, and stocking into the Lower Missouri River
- Endangered Ozark cavefish NWR
Fishery Stations in Missouri- Columbia Fishery Resources Office • Neosho National Fish Hatchery
- Sea lamprey control and monitoring/assessment
- Shovelnose sturgeon restoration in the upper Ohio River Basin
- Paddlefish
No Fishery Stations are located in Ohio.
- Endangered mussel restoration for the Higgins Eye pearlymussel
- Lake trout broodstock rearing and spawning
- Lake trout rearing and tagging for stocking
- Lake trout stocking in Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan
- Sea lamprey control and monitoring/assessment
- Lake sturgeon
- Native American trust species assistance
- Paddlefish
- Fish passage
- Coaster brook trout
- Aquatic Nuisance Species monitoring
Fishery Stations in Wisconsin- Ashland Fishery Resources Office • Green Bay Fishery Resources Office • La Crosse Fishery Resources Office • Iron River National Fish Hatchery • La Crosse Fish Health Center • Genoa National Fish Hatchery
Department of Interior