The intent and purpose of this request for quote (unsealed bid) is to obtain a vendor to furnish and deliver three (3) shipments of trout eggs to Wytheville State Fish Hatchery. The Hatchery was built and placed into service in 1964 by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and operation of the facility passed to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) in 1983. In a typical year over 150,000 trout (75% rainbow, 25% brown) are stocked from the facility at an average length of 12–14 inches and an average weight of just under a pound each. These fish are released into almost 40 different bodies of water including streams, lakes, and rivers across ten counties in Southwest Virginia. The Hatchery also releases close to 100,000 brown and rainbow fingerlings into Special Regulation and other waters in several area counties in a typical year. The Wytheville Hatchery also operated as a spawning and brood stock station, taking over 3 million eggs per year from facility-reared brood fish and rearing all life stages of rainbow and brown trout. The facility serves as a major transfer station as well, supplying other DWR trout hatcheries with hundreds of thousands of young rainbow and brown trout each year. A recent development at the Hatchery is the production of sterile triploid brown and rainbow trout for stocking into select waters where fisheries managers wish to avoid reproduction or competition with existing wild trout populations. Need by date Description Quantity; 2/13/26 Domestic Trout Eggs (Rb) Fe [3N] (Steelhead/Female/Triploid) 100,000; 5/15/26 Domestic Trout Eggs (Rb) Fe (Jumper/Female/Diploid) 150,000; 6/01/26 Domestic Trout Eggs (Rb) Fe [3N] (Jumper/Female/Triploid) 100,000
