Mescalero Tribal Fish Hatchery

Mescalero Tribal Fish Hatchery Welcome to the Mescalero Tribal Fish Hatchery! 💜🐟🪶🖤 Tours are always welcome. Large tours MUST call in advance so we can prepare for your arrival!

Also Like & Follow our page for all the latest MTFH updates and fish stockings! 🎣 Thank you! 😊 The Mescalero Tribal Fish Hatchery is a very unique facility with a interesting past! Ran by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service from 1964 to 1999 the facility was known as the Mescalero National Fish Hatchery. In 2000 devastating fires and flooding from up the canyon deemed the hatchery a total loss with

100% fish kill. The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service gave the hatchery back to the Mescalero Apache Tribe. With a very small amount of funds from the Mescalero Apache Tribe and a couple of partner Tribes they literally brought back the hatchery from the ashes, and formed the Southwest Tribal Fisheries Commission! Making the Mescalero Tribal Fish Hatchery the only Tribal Hatchery in the Southwest! To this day the MOU Agreement between the Mescalero Apache Tribe and the Southwest Tribal Fisheries Commission is stronger than ever! With high hopes to continue the partnerships between; as of now, 19 member Tribes! The Mescalero Tribal Fish Hatchery is a non-profit organization and is committed to providing low cost fish through the Southwest Tribal Fisheries Commission to tribes throughout the Southwest! We are also involved in engaging in educational programs and to mentor all students including tribal youth in pursuing careers in natural resources!

🎣Stocking Update!🎣-Delivery of 250 lbs. of fish to Acoma Pueblo (Acomita Lake)!Have a fun, safe weekend! Happy fishing! ...
06/19/2026

🎣Stocking Update!🎣

-Delivery of 250 lbs. of fish to Acoma Pueblo (Acomita Lake)!

Have a fun, safe weekend! Happy fishing! Also thank you Acoma Pueblo for the fish purchase! We are so happy to hear from you all again, we missed you guys! We were also able to take our Summer Youth along for the delivery! There they learned how the whole process of long distance deliveries are done! Good job crew!! 😎👍🐟

🔬🧬🧫🧪⚗️We just want to give a huge thank you to Dr. Vandhana at Ruidoso High School for having us as special guests in he...
06/05/2026

🔬🧬🧫🧪⚗️We just want to give a huge thank you to Dr. Vandhana at Ruidoso High School for having us as special guests in her science classroom! There, our staff spent the whole day teaching Ruidoso High School students about what we do at our facility! They even got to see a live demonstration of a neocropcy lab and examples/importance of water testing! We are so happy they all had many questions and were involved in the class activities! We hope many got inspired to join the Natural Resources, Fisheries Science, or Biology field! Thank you again for having us! We had an awesome time! 🤩⚗️🧪🧫🧬🔬

🎣Stocking Update!🎣-Silver Lake stocked with 250 lbs. of fish!Have a great, safe Memorial Day weekend!🐟
05/22/2026

🎣Stocking Update!🎣

-Silver Lake stocked with 250 lbs. of fish!

Have a great, safe Memorial Day weekend!🐟

🎣🐟🤩🚎We just want to thank Mescalero Apache Elementary School 1st and 2nd grade for scheduling tours with us! After the t...
05/15/2026

🎣🐟🤩🚎We just want to thank Mescalero Apache Elementary School 1st and 2nd grade for scheduling tours with us! After the tour they got to see the process of loading up fish into our delivery truck and our amazing staff was able to stock Tulie Creek for their fishing day! We hope everyone had an awesome time and learned alot! We also love the poster you made for us!!! Thank you!!! 🚎🤩🐟🎣

-Tulie Creek stocked with 100 lbs. of fish!

05/04/2026

Sometimes you gotta assert your dominance! 🤣🤷‍♂️

05/01/2026
🎣Stocking Update!🎣🤩We are excited to announce that we stocked Silver Lake!! For pricing, camping or other information pl...
05/01/2026

🎣Stocking Update!🎣

🤩We are excited to announce that we stocked Silver Lake!! For pricing, camping or other information please call Sliver Lake Campground for details!

-Silver Lake stocked with 500 lbs. of fish!🐟

Have a awesome, safe weekend! Happy fishing! 🎣

🚍🚎We want to give a huge thank you to Deming Sunshine School for scheduling a tour with us!! We really appreciate it! We...
04/23/2026

🚍🚎We want to give a huge thank you to Deming Sunshine School for scheduling a tour with us!! We really appreciate it! We hope everyone had a great time and learned alot! 🤩👍🐟

🏔🏜🏕🏝🏞🌎Happy Earth Day!!!! Today we celebrate our beautiful mother Earth and all she provides for us!! Let us remember to...
04/22/2026

🏔🏜🏕🏝🏞🌎Happy Earth Day!!!! Today we celebrate our beautiful mother Earth and all she provides for us!! Let us remember to keep our land and waterways clean and clear for our future generations and wildlife to enjoy!! 🌎🏞🏝🏕🏜🏔

Address

274 Trout Loop
Mescalero, NM
88340

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 4:30pm
Saturday 7am - 3:30pm
Sunday 7am - 3:30pm

Telephone

(575) 464-8768

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