The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced that waters scheduled to be stocked in 2008 should receive at least 90 percent of the original numbers despite finding whirling disease earlier this year at the Ten Sleep Fish Hatchery.

All ten Game and Fish hatcheries and fish rearing stations were able to reallocate fish requests and adjust upcoming egg numbers to cover the majority of shortages.

Schedules were also adjusted for 2009 because Ten Sleep Hatchery will continue to be out of production until sources of the contamination can be eliminated.

Although tests are ongoing to confirm the cause of the infection at the Ten Sleep Fish Hatchery, it is believed that surface water from nearby Ten Sleep Creek or Leigh Creek contaminated the hatchery water supply.

The department has asked the State Building Commission to consider funding a proposal to renovate the Ten Sleep Hatchery by July 2011.