C.D. "Buzz" Besadny Anadromous Fish Facility

View looking upriver at the old Footbridge dam and fish ladder to the egg collection facility.

The C.D. "Buzz" Besadny Anadromous Fish Facility is a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources egg collection station near the city of Kewaunee. Trout and salmon migrating from Lake Michigan are led by flowing water in a fish ladder to collection ponds. Fish are moved from the ponds into the processing building to be spawned and harvested.[1][2]

The facility began operations in 1990, and a processing building and public viewing area was opened in 1996.

History

The site is location of the Kewaunee 'Old Mill', which operated from the mid 1800s to 1936. Once a year the dam was closed and at this location thousands of residents gathered for 'Sucker Day' where sucker fish were easily captured because of the receding waters. A historical marker stands at this site. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Wisconsin DNR: Fishing Wisconsin-C.D. "Buzz" Besandny Anadromous Fish Facility
  2. ↑ Rick Kustich, Advanced Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead (Stackpole Books, 2013), ISBN 978-0811749640, p. 162. Excerpts available at Google Books.
  3. ↑ Kewaunee County Historical Society Driving Tour Maps and Descriptions

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