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FriendsGenoa National Fish Hatchery is now the proud owner of a Friends Group! The hatchery has banded together with the La Crosse Fishery Resources Office and the La Crosse Fish Health Center to form a cooperative Friends Group called the Friends of the Upper Mississippi River Fishery Stations. This group of concerned citizens is working toward improving the status and health of fishery populations in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. What is a Friends Group?A Friends Group is:
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What do they do?Friends groups are involved in many activities to support local fisheries and refuge offices. Here are a few, but certainly not all, of them:
Where do they come from?Friends are a lot like you and me: students, teachers, carpenters, bankers, nurses, professors, and retirees. The one thing that all these people have in common is that they care about fisheries as a natural resource, and work to protect it. Their concern for the resource encouraged them to organize a Friends group that is dedicated to promoting and assisting local fisheries programs. Few people know that the fisheries stations in their area are part of a larger nationwide system, and that system currently lacks not only critical resources, but strong grass-roots political support. Friends groups can promote the Service fisheries program by helping their local community understand the mission of our local fisheries stations on the Mississippi River. Resources:There are many friends groups for the Fish and Wildlife Service listed on the Internet. Here are a few sample site addresses:
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