Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery, Historic fish hatchery in Independence, California.

Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery is a Tudor Revival hatchery building north of Independence, California, its walls built of 3,500 short tons of native granite gathered within a quarter mile of the site and two to three feet thick, under a roof of red Spanish tile made in Lincoln, California.

Independence citizens raised $1,500 in 1915 to buy a 40-acre site on Oak Creek; construction of the Tudor Revival hatchery began in March 1916 and finished in 1917, when it was California's largest and best-equipped, able to produce 2,000,000 fry a year. A 2007 wildfire and a 2008 mudslide damaged ponds and water supplies, and the hatchery closed in 2008.

The hatchery closed in 2008, and its interpretive center and display pond reopened on May 30, 2009, after Friends of the Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery organized restoration following the mudslide. A Kids Fishing Day was held in May 2010, and the first fish from the hatchery in three years were planted in Diaz Lake. In November 2023 the state announced the land would go to the Fort Independence Indian Community, whose Paiute members have lived in the area since time immemorial.

The hatchery stands on Oak Creek just north of Independence, reached via Highway 395; the main building and display pond reopened on May 30, 2009, after mudslide repairs. The interpretive center is not currently open, so check locally before planning a stop. The grounds are uneven where the 2008 mudslide damaged the ponds.

The 2023 transfer of over 40 acres to the Fort Independence Indian Community was the first land transfer by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to a California tribe. Tribal Chairman Carl Dahlberg said the property is "inextricably intwined into who we are as Paiute people."