By Ryan Mitchel Collins
Staff Writer 

Wigwam Rearing Station near Ten Sleep ranks third in state for production

 

Ryan Mitchel Collins

DAILY NEWS/Ryan Mitchel Collins Fish Culturist Kerrie Vivian stands with Senior Fish Culturist Travis Trimble and Hatchery Supervisor Jeff Stafford in front of the Wigwam Rearing Station Monday July 20. The Wigwam Rearing Station is located four miles east of Ten Sleep and is open to the public Monday through Friday, 8 a.m to 5 p.m.

TEN SLEEP - The Wigwam Rearing Station, four miles east of Ten Sleep on U.S. Highway 16, produces 35,000 to 45,000 pounds of trout annually. With that kind of production on a yearly basis, the Wigwam Rearing Station, one of eight Wyoming Game and Fish fish hatcheries in the state, produces the third most fish of those eight hatcheries.

According to Jeff Stafford, the Hatchery Superintendant,...



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