New Brunswick, Saint John River, Mactaquac, Salmon, Department of Fisheries and the Environment, Fisheries and Marine Service, Freshwater and Anadromous Division, Mactaquac Hatchery, Mactaquac Dam 

"The Mactaquac Hatchery was financed and built in the mid-1960's by the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission, and is operated by the fisheries and Marine Service of the Canadian department of Fisheries and the Environment. The station covers a 13-acre site and contains offices, hatching rooms, laboratories, rearing ponds, adult holding pools and other associated facilities.
Water for the hatchery is supplied both from the Mactaquac Dam headpond and from wells located on the station grounds. Headpond water can be taken from three different depths - 20, 40 and 70 feet. A 100-foot well and three 55-foot wells supplement the supply with pure groundwater, ranging in temperature from 5 [degrees Celsius] to 9 [degrees Celsius]…The variations in temperature, which are possible by regulating this dual water supply system, facilitate control over both water quality and growth rate of the young salmon. A hatchery-reared fish, for example, can be brought to sea-going age in two years, one year earlier than a fish reared in its native stream under natural conditions."  

This document is an informational brochure on the Mactaquac Dam and Hatchery.
It was produced by the Department of Fisheries and the Environment.

The brochure is split into the following sections:
- The Atlantic Salmon - Its Story
- Finclipping and Tagging
- The Salmon as a Resource
- A River and its Salmon
- Fish Collection Facilities
- Mactaquac Hatchery