Game and Fish employees prepare grayling fish eggs for incubation in the incubation room full of drip incubators at the Dubois Fish Hatchery.

Dubois Fish Hatchery

Fish Hatchery Information

 

The Dubois Fish Hatchery was originally built in 1940 and is situated at the base of the Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep winter range on the east slope of the Wind River Mountains.The Dubois Hatchery is 5 miles east of Dubois on Highway 26, then 1.3 miles south on Fish Hatchery Road along the Jakey's Fork Creek.

Dubois Fish Hatchery Address


P.O. Box 704, 5 Fish Hatchery Court
Dubois, Wyoming 82513

(307) 455-2431

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Fish Hatchery Hours:

The hatchery is open to the public 8 am - 5 pm daily.

 

Fish Hatchery Video Tour

Dubois Hatchery Fun Facts

  • The Dubois Hatchery produces around 170,000 fish annually.
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  • The Dubois Hatchery incubates up to five million fish eggs annually for use at the hatchery and other hatcheries in Wyoming.
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  • The Dubois Hatchery uses a water chiller that allows the hatchery to use water temperature to speed up or slow down the incubation of fish eggs so large groups of eggs collected on different dates can all hatch at the same time.
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Fish Raised at the Hatchery

An illustration of the Colorado River cutthroat trout

A wide variety of fish are incubated and/or reared at Dubois Hatchery. The facility produces annually on average nearly 170,000 fish weighing close to 25,000 pounds.

Fish species reared at Dubois Hatchery include Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout, Fall Rainbow Trout, Arctic Grayling, Kokanee Salmon, and
Tiger Trout. Dubois also raises Wyoming’s four native cutthroat trout: the Bear River (Bonneville), Colorado River,
Snake River and Yellowstone Cutthroat.

Where does Dubois Fish Hatchery Get Its Water?

 

A comprehensive remodel of Dubois Fish Hatchery in 2006 transformed an aging facility into a state-of-the-art high production facility utilizing a partial reuse water recirculation system, maximizing use of a limited water supply. In 2023, due to reduced water flows from the artesian well that provides water to the facility, the hatchery once again started utilizing water from the Jakey's Fork. The creek water is filtered before being disinfected using ultraviolet light.

Dubois Fish Hatchery Images

  • Game and Fish employees prepare grayling fish eggs for incubation in the incubation room full of drip incubators at the Dubois Fish Hatchery.
    Incubating arctic grayling eggs inside the incubation room at Dubois Fish Hatchery.
  • Dubois Fish Hatchery