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Warm
Springs National Fish Hatchery is located on the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation.
Established in 1966, it began operation in 1978 to stock Reservation
waters with salmon and trout.
The hatchery
is on the Warm Springs River, a tributary of the Deschutes River,
that flows into the Columbia. It is operated by the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service on lands leased from the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs. The Confederated Tribes have sole management
responsibility for fishery resources on the Reservation.
The hatchery is managed in cooperation with the Confederated Tribes.
