The Burnett Inlet Hatchery was designed primarily as a sockeye rehabilitation enhancement facility. The hatchery is located on Burnett Inlet approximately 42 kilometers south of Wrangell on Etolin Island. The traditional Burnett Inlet sockeye broodstock program will continue this year with yearling smolts, produced from eggs taken at the hatchery, being released at Burnett Inlet. Sockeye eggs collected last fall from wild adults returning to McDonald Lake were incubated at Burnett Inlet Hatchery. The resultant smolts will be returned to McDonald Lake the spring of 2009. Sockeye eggs will be collected again this fall at McDonald Lake for a smolt release in 2010. The sockeye releases from the raceway at Neck Creek near Whale Pass have been discontinued.

Cory Hagemeister, Asst. Mng. (left) Ronald Parsley Jr. (right)

Robert Reif, Fish Culturist