Mora National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center

Located in Mora County, New Mexico, on State Route 434 (milepost 1.5),[1] it is mainly involved in the restoration and recovery of the threatened Gila trout, a fish found only in the upper headwaters of the Gila River in New Mexico and Arizona.

The hatchery accepts a limited number of volunteers to assist in conservation activities.

[2] Scientists at the Mora hatchery keep brood stocks of the Gila trout, maintaining them in as natural a setting as possible.

They keep the Gila trout in tanks with woody cover, current flow, and with other fishes that naturally associate in the wild, like the desert and Sonoran sucker.

Elaborate quarantine procedures have been established to prevent the spread of disease to the rare brood stocks from fish brought in from the wild and from other hatcheries.