The Fish And Wildlife Service Supplies Management Assistance Program

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The Fisheries program of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service was started 133 years ago. In addition to ensuring that there will be continuing opportunities for all fishermen across the United States, they are also responsible for monitoring and maintaining the national fish populations. They put emphasis on a fish species that might be in danger of being depleted and focus on the recovery of their population. There are two different programs in the Fisheries program, the National Fish Hatchery System and the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance Program.

There are many responsibilities assigned directly to the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program of the Fish and Wildlife Service. The management assistance part of the name refers to their planning and management services, with regard to animal populations. While not directly involved, they participate in the planning end of restoring endangered fish populations. They monitor the numbers of fish in the hatcheries and how long they have been there, and they monitor, regulate and prevent the invasion of predator species. When repopulating does occur, the program monitors the repopulation to see how effective it is. Public education regarding conservation is their final responsibility.

The National Fish Hatchery program has multi-functional responsibilities. They use hatcheries to breed fish that have no genetic defects and then place them into the wild to repopulate in areas that are depleted. The hatchery workers do research to identify and try to prevent disease that may be affecting fish and aquatic wildlife. In addition to all of this, they also provide refuge habitats to fish that have become an endangered species, as an attempt to allow them time to breed for the purpose of repopulating.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has a Fish Hatchery program that does a wonderful job of ensuring the continued availability of local game fish. Because game fishing is such a large part of the economy in many areas, this helps to ensure the stability of those economies. There are limits set for fishermen in all areas; those limits differ depending on the type of fish being sought. Enforcement of those limits is a responsibility of the Fish Hatchery program and ensures that local game fish, like the largemouth bass and the smallmouth bass do not become extinct from overfishing.

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