Center Facts

• Established: 1993.
• The Fish Technology Center is a component of the Warm Springs Regional Fisheries Center to improve and enhance management effectiveness. It provides consolidated technical operational support to regional fisheries operations and technical assistance to the public. Includes laboratories at Warm Springs, Georgia, and a field station in Bears Bluff, South Carolina.
• The staff at Warm Springs FTC includes four biologists and a computer assistant.
• The Fish Technology Center budget for FY04 is $434,200.

• The 10 states of the Southeast Region.

• Improve and enhance management effectiveness, by providing consolidated technical operational support to regional fisheries operations, fish culture techniques, and providing technical assistance to the public. Restore and manage interjurisdictional coastal and riverine fishes such as robust redhorse, shortnose sturgeon, Gulf sturgeon, and Gulf striped bass.
• Provide conservation genetics support for Regional fishery
  programs.
• Maintain the National Fish Strain Registry for dissemination of information and support of private, State and Federal broodstocks.Recovery of species listed under the Endangered Species Act, such as: the endangered shortnose sturgeon, the threatened Gulf sturgeon, and various small stream fishes.
• Develop culture techniques for native fishes.
• Develop hatchery product evaluation techniques.

• Federal agencies including other Fish and Wildlife Service program offices.
• State agencies.
• Native American Tribes.
• Military bases.
• Universities.
• Non-governmental organizations (NGO’s).
• The public.

• Cooperative studies are undertaken with various universities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and South Carolina.
• Support the Robust Redhorse Conservation Committee which includes the states of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Fish and Wildlife Service, several power companies, Forest Service, Corps of Engineers, several additional state, federal and industrial entities.
• Cooperative efforts include the National Marine Fisheries Service; the Tennessee Aquarium; Gulf Coast Marine Fisheries Commission; and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission; and the National Broodstock Stations.
• Serve on the Ogeechee River Shortnose Sturgeon Working Group and the Tennessee River Lake Sturgeon Working Group.

• Environmental education and public outreach opportunities to visitors, school groups, and various other organizations.
• Beautiful surroundings and natural environment.
• Aquatic display for off-site presentations.
• Co-located with Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery.

February: Fish-a-Rama, Atlanta and Perry, Georgia.

June: Youth Fishing Event

Questions and Answers

What is a Fish Technology Center?

Fish technology centers were established in 1965 to provide leadership and guidance to the fish culture community. The Warm Springs Center is one of seven centers presently operating in the U.S.

Over the years, fish culture studies focused on reducing costs, enhancing fish quality, and improving overall fish culture operations. The importance of fish technology centers became clear as fisheries program managers became increasingly aware of the need to produce fish that are healthy, genetically diverse, and well-adapted to fisheries management objectives.

Areas of specialty include technical support for fisheries resource programs such as interjurisdictional fishes, estuarine and riverine fishes, non-indigenous aquatic nuisance species, threatened and endangered species, and other emerging high priority aquatic resource needs.

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