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All administration personnel are located in Frankfort. This includes the Fisheries Division Director and three Assistant Directors.
Personnel are:
The District offices are involved with the management of the fisheries in their district, including recommendations such as size limits, creel limits, and fish stocking changes. Day to day activities involve conducting fish population surveys, construction of fish attractors in public lakes, conducting creel surveys and other duties. They also provide assistance regarding pond management and other fisheries information requests. District staff also serves as a response team to fish kills and pollution incidents.
The district personnel are:
Map showing Fisheries District boundaries and office locations
There are two hatcheries located in Kentucky that are owned and operated by the KDFWR and one hatchery that is owned and operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The hatcheries produce the fish that are stocked within the state and a few that are provided for other states.
Minor Clark Hatchery and Peter W. Pfeiffer Hatchery are KDFWR hatcheries that produce cool and warm water fishes such as largemouth bass, muskellunge, walleyes, striped bass, hybrid striped bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, blue catfish and channel catfish. They also house the fish transportation section, which transports and stocks fish all over the Commonwealth.
Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery (USFWS) produces cold water fishes such as brown, brook and rainbow trout.
All the hatcheries are involved in additional projects such as mussel production and protection.
The hatchery contacts are:
The Fisheries Research Section of the Fisheries Division has five primary sections including five field research subsections and one computer support section. All subsections of the research section are based in Frankfort. The field research subsections are involved with intensively studying management activities such as size limits, creel limits, fish stockings, and other management activities that might have statewide implications. The biostatistics section is responsible for providing technical assistance to all fisheries division staff and is responsible for analyzing creel survey data and updating and maintaining all Division databases. The Aquatic Education section is responsible for scheduling educational fishing events and promoting fishing to both youth and adults.
The Fisheries Research and Aquatic Education personnel are:
Aquatic invasive and nuisance species are non-native species (a.k.a. exotic, alien, or non-indigenous) that have moved outside their native range. Often, invasive species become "nuisances" due to their disruption of the environments where they are introduced. The Fisheries Division has two branches (AIS Frankfort and AIS Murray) that focus on invasive carp and other statewide ANS species.
The Fisheries Division issues permits for existing structures or the construction of new structures built on land buffers of Department-owned lakes. The permits are intended to allow additional lake access to adjacent landowners while limiting the extent of construction so that erosion will not be a problem and the natural beauty of the lakes and lands are not unduly affected.
Boat Dock and Shoreline Access: Jason.Kaitchuck@ky.gov
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