The Archer Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Page: 1 of 8
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A Busy Week At The Dundee Fish
Hatchery
by Mike Walker The Archer Advocate!Editor
Hughes sentenced to
1 ft VOOrC by Mike Walker
A V y >5 The Archer Advocate/Editor
The grueling man-hours
of the Dundee Fish Hatchery
spawning season began last
week when Smith and his crew
returned from collecting brood
fish from Lake Livingston in
East Texas. Brood fish are adult
fish that are mature enough to
breed. Male and Fe-
male brood fish are held in
separate holding tanks for 24
hours when they arrive at
Dundee. Smith said each fish
is given a colored tag and has
an individual number for iden-
tification purposes.
After the 24-hour period,
techni-
cians mix
extracted
white
bass milt
with
striper
eggs for
hybrid
produc-
tion. The
techni-
cians
then put
the eggs
into a
Jensorter,
a machine that counts the num-
ber of eggs in the sample. Af-
ter going through the Jensorter,
the eggs then go into a hatch
tube. After 40 hours, eggs hatch
and swim into a fry vat, a plas-
tic barrel with water circulating
pipes.
“Some of our vats have
over 600,00 fry in them,” Smith
said while looking at a beaker
containing hundreds of spo-
radic fry.
(continued on page 2)
said.
“Spawn-
ing is a
once-a-
The Archer
April 21, 2004
It doesn’t take long to re-
alize that it has been a very
productive week at the Dundee
Fish Hatchery. The evidence is
in the more than 80 vats in the
spawn room where over 7.6
million fry have been hatched
in six days. .
The fry, small newly
hatched fish, are striped bass
and hybrid striped bass spe-
cies, the specialty of the
Dundee Fish Hatchery, a
sprawling facility in secluded
Northern Archer County.
“We just started this pro-
cess last
week and
it’s almost
over,”
Hatchery
Manager
Dennis
year
shot.”
With The Dundee Fish Hatchery (Photos by The Archer Advocate)
their one
shot, it ap-
pears Smith and his staff hit the
bull’s eye. He estimates about
4.2 million hybrids and 3.4
million striped bass have been
hatched this spawning season.
Striped bass were once
primarily saltwater fish that
entered freshwater to spawn
but in the 40s researchers dis-
covered they could live en-
tirely in freshwater. Hybrids
are smaller than pure stripers
and can handle a greater vari-
ety of environmental condi-
tions.
The
Dundee
Fish
Hatch-
ery, lo-
c a t e d
seven
miles
north of
Dundee,
is the
largest
hatchery in Texas. The 120-acre
facility is more than twice the size
of the four other Texas hatcheries.
It boasts
97 ponds,
ranging in
size from
o n e -
fourth to
one acre
each. 73
ponds,
added
during a
major expansion in 1993, were con-
structed with state-of-the-art
polypropylene membrane liners.
“This is
hardest thing I
have every
done,” Candice
said at the
beginning of
her statement.
During the
statement,
Jackson
referred to the
accident as,
Candice and her family talked to reporters after “my
the sentencing Tuesday morning.
(Photo by The Archer Advocate)
Deborah Lynn Hughes pled
guilty to injury to a child in 97th
District Court at the Archer
County Courthouse Tuesday
morning and will serve 10 years
in prison.
In September 2002,
Hughes’s vehicle struck 13-year-
old Candice Jackson as she was
exiting a school bus in front of
her home in Scotland. Blood
tests showed that Hughes has
methamphetamine in her system
at the time of the accident.
Jackson faced life
threatening injuries and spent
months in Dallas, Fort Worth and
Wichita Falls’hospitals. Jackson,
her parents, and two brothers
were all present in the courtroom
for Hughes ’ sentencing.
Judge Roger Towery said
Hughes will be credited with time
served since the September 13,
2002 incident. Hughes waived
her right to appeal.
After Hughes was
sentenced, Candice Jackson read
a two page victim statement.
Speaking through a flow of tears,
she explained how the accident
has changed her life and what she
has been through since
September 2002.
nightmare”.
A s
Hughes was
being escorted out of the courtroom,
she expressed her sorrow to Candice
for her actions.
“We’ve gotten this behind us
now,” Candice’s mother, Amy
Jackson said after the sentencing.
“We can start to heal and get on with
our lives.”
Candice Jackson spent months
in rehabilitation and still attends
weekly therapy sessions. “She had
a severe brain injury, fractured ribs
and her ear was split,” Amy Jackson
said in an interview with The Archer
Advocate in September 2003. “The
doctors in Dallas told us it didn’t
look good.”
Candice has battled back from
her injuries, returned to school full-
time and participated in volleyball at
Windthorst Junior High School in the
fall of 2003. Amy Jackson said
Candice still suffers from weakness
on her left side. Her left hand does
not move correctly and she has
shortness in her hip.
“I feel relieved,” Candice
Jackson said after the sentencing.
“This was a weight off my shoulders.
Candice said she read a victims
statement so Hughes would know
what she has been through. “It was
nice to near her say she was sorry,”
Candice said.
Fate of Holliday Gym
still unknown £5522"“
The Wild Hog is
Loose in Texas
More than a month after
damaging winds devastated the
Holliday High School campus, the
district is still
trying to put the
pieces back
together.
“They are still
evaluating the
structure,”
Superintendent
Clark Boyd said
Monday, speaking
about the
gymnasium/
cafeteria building at
the school.
“Structural
engineers have been
here taking a second
look at the wall that is between the
cafeteria and the gym to try and
determine what needs to be done.”
The repair or the replacement of
the Holliday High School Gym still
appears to be unknown but the
insurance company has addressed
some of the minor repairs.
The school has received a check
in the amount of $200,000 to help
address the damage to the softball
field, baseball field, the need for
temporary buildings, fencing and
security of the campus, as well as the
repair of other structures.
“We have not received any
dollar amount figures or any solid
damage assessments at the moment.”
Boyd said. “I was hoping to hear
something last week but they wanted
to look at the wall between the gym
and the cafeteria again.”
Even though Holliday ISD has been
informed about proposed repairs or
the destruction of the gym, some
items may still need to be
discussed.
“If we are told the
wall is structurally sound,
the school board would
still have to discuss
whether the cafeteria
should be used this year
or wait until repairs have
been made before
allowing the kids back in
the building,” Mr. Boyd
pointed out.
The minor
repairs have been
underway since the day of
the destruction but the
disposition of the major damage is
still not known. “We are hoping that
one day this week we will receive
numbers concerning what damage
will be repaired and what structures
will need to be replaced but at the
moment we just don’t know.”
The wild hog problem has gotten
so rampant, the Texas Health
Commission and other state health
departments stage regular “Feral
Swine Symposiums” for ranchers
and animal-behavior, forestry and
conservation specialist.
In recent years, participants have
explored trapping, fencing,
euthanizing and even birth control
to control the hog population.
“The pigs are running amok,
particularly in Texas, where the
population has skyrocketed,” said
fish and wildlife specialist Billy
Higginbotham of Texas A & M
University.
Mr. Higginbotham also tracks the
damage that the wild hogs create.
The damage averages $4,184 per
incident among farmers or
landowners. The hogs dig up
fences, steal feed, attack pets and
other animals along with
wallowing in ponds and running
off other animals, along with
spreading diseases such as
tuberculosis and even anthrax.
They are not small pigs. Feral
versions can weigh up to 450
pounds. They are dark, fury and
tusked creatures, with bristly hair
along their backbones giving the
appearance of razor.
In Van Zandt County, a pair of wild
hog ears will fetch a person seven
dollars. Last year the county paid
out over $10,731 for 1,533 pairs
of hog ears. Year to date they have
paid out $6,641, well over the
by John Thomas
Managing Editor
$2,500 budgeted to this project.
Archer County Extension Agent
Travis Ball said that the problems
associated with hogs has not
reached the same level as Van Zandt
County. “There is damage here,
mainly in the farmland,” he said.
“The ranchers have concerns, but
not quite the same as farmers. The
population of the
hogs and the
damaged associated
with them has not
caused the county to
look into different
means of
controlling them.”
Mr. Higginbotham
interviewed 491
East Texas
landowners in an
attempt to qualify
the havoc the
animals are causing.
“I thought some of
the people would
say they liked them
for the extra income
or liked hunting
them themselves,
but not one person
had anything good
to say about them, not one.”
There are thought to be well over 2
million hogs in Texas alone. The
Lone Star State is grappling with
the nations largest population of
feral pigs. However a large hog
population has not appeared in
Archer County. Extension agent
Ball says that the wild hog
population in the county, though
destructive, is more of a hunting
sport activity rather than a
control situation. “I have been
out and seen the damage the
hogs create but I believe
currently in Archer County there
is not a major concern by the
farmers and ranchers
concerning the hogs.”
Ironically the rampaging pigs
have historic pedigrees. The old
lineage can be tracked back to
pigs that arrived with Spanish
explorer Hernando de Soto in
1539 and Russian wild boars,
which were introduced in
America in the 19th century.
In Texas, feral-hog hunting
requires a license but there is no
bag limit and can be hunted year
round.
Holliday Softball Field & Baseball Field Storm Damage (Photos by The Archer Advocate)
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Inside: County & Community 2 & 3 • Schools & Sports 4 & 5 • Outdoors 6
Holliday Concession Stand Storm Damage (Photos by The Archer Advocate)
(Photo by Steve Thornell/Thundercloud Marketing)
Now this is a big boar hog IThis hog was killed
by Chris Luhnow of Carrollton TX on March
20, 2004 at 6:45 am, on a ranch west of
Archer City, south of Lake Kickapoo.
City of AC City Book Fund of Archer
P.O. Box 957
Archer City TX 76351
05/21/2004
Mr. & Miss. ACHS, Brandon McCord
& Denver Williamson, were
announced Thursday, story on page 4.
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Thomas, John. The Archer Advocate (Holliday, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 21, 2004, newspaper, April 21, 2004; Holliday, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth993812/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Archer Public Library.