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In 2023, more than 20 million threatened or endangered fish and wildlife were raised on national fish hatcheries for eventual release into a natural setting or to protect the genetic diversity of the species. 20,531,076 – Federally listed animals released or transferred from a national fish hatchery. 70 – Threatened or endangered species ...
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Like many data reporting projects, this one started with publicly available data. My co-reporter, Tony Schick at Oregon Public Broadcasting, part of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, sent over a link to a database of tiny metal tags that had been embedded in millions of juvenile salmon and steelhead trout in the Columbia River Basin. The databa...
With some serious holes now poked in my initial idea, I decided to revisit a data portalthat various hatcheries staffers had mentioned. Maintained by the Columbia Basin Research center at the University of Washington, the portal reports data about a different type of tag than the ones I was initially looking into. The first group of tags, called co...
As helpful as the Columbia Basin Research portal was, questions remained, like what counts as success. There was one figure that kept popping up in large-scale reviews of the hatcheries system. In 2003, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, a federal agency developed to help balance hydropower and conservation priorities in the Pacific Nort...
It was a bit disappointing to report just 16 numbers after months of work. There is so much more to fish biology that I learned from my chats with all those experts. But the numbers I reported were important: They showed that between 2014 and 2018, none of the fish populations met the 4% population-restoration benchmark. Even when conditions were g...
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May 24, 2022 · Last year the Colville Tribes, whose diet was once as much as 60% salmon, caught less than one fish for each of its 10,000 people. “Despite all the efforts that we’ve done, the salmon run is ...
Aug 2, 2023 · The global consumption of fish and shellfish is a staggering 156 million tons per year, or the equivalent of one million blue whales. In North America alone, the average individual consumes between 18 and 19 pounds of fish and shellfish each year, for a total of 3.5 million tons.
Sep 29, 2022 · The Good. The first federal fish hatchery, known as the Baird Fish Hatchery, was established on the McCloud River in California in 1872. It was created to help maintain wild salmon populations in the McCloud and surrounding waters, as well as to aid in establishing fishable populations of salmon, trout, shad, striped bass, lobster, and catfish ...
The National Fish Hatchery System by the numbers (2021). Hatcheries can be a unique and powerful tool for wildlife conservation when they are used to recover wild populations and support sustainable recreational fisheries. 110 million – Fish released by national fish hatcheries. 81 million – Eggs transferred through the National Broodstock Program.
Results from the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Detailed Tables is a collection of tables presenting national estimates from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). 1 These tables present information for youths aged 12 to 17 and adults aged 18 or older (separately and combined) on drug, alcohol, and tobacco use (including nicotine vaping), as well as substance use ...
