Bevra Trout Hatchery
Restoring brown trout. Strengthening a valley.
About Bevra Trout Hatchery
Founded in 2020 in the Assi Ganga valley India, Bevra Trout Hatchery is a localized conservation effort to restore a unique strain of brown trout, protect a Himalayan ecosystem, and support community-based conservation opportunities.
Our mission is to restore the brown trout of the Assi Ganga valley, sustain the river, empower the community, and preserve a unique Himalayan way of life.
Our Story
Bevra Trout Hatchery was founded in 2020 to restore the brown trout introduced to the Assi Ganga valley a century before. In 2013 a devastating combination of an unprecedented monsoon flood and hydropower development project reshaped the river and wiped out nearly all of the valley’s distinct strain of brown trout. We now work with valley partners to rebuild healthy populations of the same brown trout through science based stocking and hatching.
Our Location
Bevra Trout Hatchery is located in the Assi Ganga valley, in the northeastern Indian Himalayas. The name Bevra comes from Bevra Gad, a small glacier-fed stream that supplies the hatchery’s water before joining the Assi Ganga — a tributary of the Ganges — the hatchery is rooted in the river system it works to restore.