Water slides for shad larvae (7508976772)

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Summary[edit] Description: English: North Attleboro, MA, June 2012: A top view of an American Shad tank shows the shutes through which larvae swim from egg cylinders. Fish biologists capture adult shad from the Merrimack and Connecticut Rivers and transport them to the hatchery where tank spawning occurs. The fertilized eggs flow through a drain to a control box where they are collected and placed into egg cylinders hung around tanks. When the shad larvae hatch in about 4 days, they swim into the tanks through chutes at the top of the cylinders. The larvae are marked with oxytetracycline and released after a few days, for a turnaround time of about a week from egg to release in the Merrimack and Charles Rivers. In 2012, the hatchery quadrupled past production for a projected total of 7-8 million shad. Credit: Catherine J. Hibbard/USFWS. Date: 19 June 2012, 11:44:33. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwsnortheast/7508976772/. Author: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region. Permission(Reusing this file): At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Flickr sets North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery. Flickr tags Fish hatchery North Attleboro National Fish Hatchery U.S. Fish and Wildlife US Fish & Wildlife Massachusetts American shad shad tank. Camera location41° 59′ 28.14″ N, 71° 16′ 59.8″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 41.991149; -71.283279.