Alaska-Yukon Cruise Tour

Macaulay Salmon Hatchery

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Construction of the Macaulay Salmon Hatchery was completed in 1989 at a cost of $7.4 million. The hatchery is permitted to incubate 121 million chum, 50 million pink, 1.5 million coho and 950,000 chinook salmon annually. The facility provides a diversity of enhancement programs that benefit commercial, sport and subsistence users of the salmon resources as well as producing harvestable surpluses of fish for cost recovery.

Pictures

Salmon Hatchery

Salmon ladder

Display tank inside the hatchery

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The Tour

Located just 2.5 miles from downtown, the Macaulay Salmon Hatchery has guides to explain the workings of the hatchery.

The city of Juneau has located a sport fishing dock next to the Macaulay hatchery site. The urban fishing opportunity has proved to be a success for Juneau residents and visitors alike. The sport fishing dock provides sport fisherman direct access to salmon returning to the hatchery.

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