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"Neah Bay and La Push opens this weekend for hatcher chinook, and a few guys that I've talked to say the commercial trollers were catching some fish off the Prairie," Chamberlain said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2012

It’s done real quickly, and the birds are put in a hatcher, where they dry off real quick.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2012

Next up is the Olympic Peninsula Salmon Derby on Feb. 19-21, formerly the Discovery Bay Salmon Derby with more than $22,000 in prizes and $10,000 for the largest hatcher chinook.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2011

But in Solenostoma the female is the hatcher, and is also the more brightly coloured.—'Descent of Man,' ii.

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

The assumption that the hen is a perfect hatcher, even barring accidents and the inherited imperfection of the egg, is not, I think, in harmony with our general conception of nature.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)