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Friends group pays for Decorah hatchery center
DECORAH, Iowa (AP) - State officials and volunteers will celebrate the opening of a visitor's center at the Decorah Fish Hatchery that is the first such facility paid for with private money raised by a friends group.
A ribbon-cutting event will be Friday morning, marking completion of the 24-by-44 foot center funded by the Friends of Decorah Fish Hatchery.
The hatchery has become a tourist destination due to the popularity of a live eagle cam, which streams images over the Internet of an eagles nest at the site.
The Department of Natural Resources didn't release the cost of the center.
Brian Malaise (left), manager of the Decorah Hatchery, nets trout at the Manchester Hatchery while Theresa Shay, a natural resources technician at the Decorah Hatchery, records whether the trout is of a size suitable for stocking or part of the hatchery's brood stock. The hatchery's trout are normally segregated by size, with some ponds holding fingerlings, some ponds holding brood stock and others holding catchable-size trout for stocking. (Sourcemedia Group)
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