Salmon River Hatchery staff completed egg collections for Chinook and Coho Salmon on October 21, 2020, resulting in over 1.6 million Chinook Salmon eggs and 860,000 coho salmon eggs. Chinook and Coho Salmon are stocked in Lake Ontario tributaries every year and provide a world class fishing experience in the open lake and tributaries. Chinook Salmon hatched from eggs collected in 2020 will be held in the hatchery for a relatively short period of time and stocked in April/May 2021. Raised in the hatchery for a longer period, Coho Salmon that are hatched from eggs collected in 2020, will be stocked as yearlings in spring 2022.

You can find more information about Lake Ontario fisheries management and the Salmon River Fish Hatchery on DEC's website.