In December 2006, the Green Lake Sanitary District (GLSD) purchased the Green Lake County Fish Rearing Facility. The Green Lake Association formed a partnership with GLSD and others including Green Lake County, Walleyes for Tomorrow, local fishing Guides and the City of Green Lake to help manage the fish rearing facility. This partnership ensures that fish will remain available for stocking Big Green Lake, thus protecting sport fishing on the lake.
Since acquiring the fish rearing facility, these partners have been busy making improvements and upgrades to keep the facility in top working order for many years to come.
The entire building structure protecting the eight trout raceways has been demolished, and a new structure constructed in July 2007. The new structure should have a useful life of between 25 and 50 years. Labor and materials for the new structure were donated by the Wisconsin DNR and most of the building came from recycled materials. For example, the roof trusses came from timbers pulled from the Radley Creek and milled into trusses at State-owned saw mills.
Other improvements to the fish rearing facility included: new electrical wiring throughout the facility, new and improved drainage system for the raceways and ponds, general safety upgrades throughout the property, and other general improvements to the grounds and other structures currently used for storage.
In addition to raising trout and walleyes for many years to come, the fish rearing facility partners are also looking at ways to make the facility more accessible to the public as well as to educate the public about the fisheries of Big Green Lake.
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