Kristen Dziubinski, a STEP student at the La Crosse Fish Health Center, collects tissue samples during a fish health inspection at Pendills Creek NFH. - FWS photo

Ken Phillips, La Crosse Fish Health Center, collects tissue samples during a fish health inspection at Pendills Creek NFH. - FWS photo

Staff from the La Crosse Fish Health Center (LFHC) conducted fish health inspections at Pendills Creek and Sullivan Creek NFH's, both located in Brimley, MI, on August 1, 2006. 

During the inspections, LFHC staff observed the facilities and conditions at each hatchery and collected tissue samples to screen for pathogens.  Tissue samples were collected from three production lots of lake trout at Pendills Creek NFH and nine brood stock lots at Sullivan Creek. 

The tissue samples will be screened for bacterial (Aeromonas salmonicida, Renibacterium salmoninarum, Yersinia ruckeri), viral (infectious pancreatic necrosis virus, infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus, viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus), and parasitic (Myxobolus cerebralis) pathogens, at the LFHC's laboratory facilities in Onalaska, WI.

Lake trout reared at Pendills Creek NFH are stocked into Lakes Huron and Michigan as part of the Service's restoration efforts on the Upper Great Lakes. 

Strictly a brood stock facility, Sullivan Creek NFH is one of two hatcheries with brood stock in Region 3.