BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 18, 2025
Three of the state’s eight hatcheries are undergoing major renovations, including its oldest facility in New Gloucester built in the 1940s and not updated since the early 1990s. The other two facilities are in Grand Lake Stream, which is the most difficult to reach because of its remoteness, and in Embden, which was the state’s first round tank farm and had a major renovation in the early 2000s. The state is using more than $25 million in one-time American Rescue Plan Act funding for the renovations. The hatcheries produce approximately 1 million fish that are released in some of Maine’s 6,000 lakes and ponds. The public can learn what lakes and ponds the DIF&W stocks, with what fish and when on the department’s stocking report online.