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Carlsbad hatchery sends 6,600 seabass to Catalina

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More than 6,600 juvenile and adult white seabass are being transferred this week from a Carlsbad hatchery to a grow-out facility on Catalina Island as part of a state-run program to replenish the dwindling species due to overfishing.

The fish were trucked on Feb. 8 from the Leon Raymond Hubbard Jr. Marine Fish Hatchery to a boat in Oceanside Harbor and then to the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute’s grow-out facility in Catalina Harbor, where the juvenile seabass will be raised to a size of roughly 14 inches and released into the wild…

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