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6 days ago · Sacramento River Winter-Run Chinook. The Sacramento River winter-run evolutionarily significant unit (called an "ESU") of Chinook salmon is one of NOAA Fisheries' Species in the Spotlight. This initiative is a concerted, agency-wide effort launched in 2015 to spotlight and save the most highly at-risk marine species.
5 days ago · While it was bittersweet, releasing Steele marks history for the students and community of Palisade High. Good luck and swim on, Steele! On May 3, 2024, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in collaboration with Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program and the Palisade High School's Endangered Fish Hatchery marked a very special day.
Apr 21, 2024 · Oct. 5, 2023. Later in the spring, state hatchery managers plan to release nearly 2 million Chinook salmon smolts into the river. Scientists expect that the $500-million dam removal project, the...
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Apr 22, 2024 · Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery raises approximately 850,000 coho salmon annually. The hatchery releases 350,000 coho on site, while 500,000 coho are transferred to the Yakama Nation to support coho restoration projects in their watersheds. The coho program operates as a segregated harvest program within the Clackamas and Eagle Creek watersheds, with returning hatchery-origin adults used ...
4 days ago · Taxonomy: available through. Identification: Rainbow trout are a deep-bodied, compressed species with a typical trout body shape, a moderately large head, and a mouth that extends back behind the eyes. Rainbow trout have highly variable coloration: those that live in lakes are silvery with a dark olive-green colour on the back, though the ...
Apr 16, 2024 · NEWPORT, Ore. – Researchers who created “family trees” for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin Chinook salmon in an Oregon river show improved fitness. The finding, based on data collected over 13 years, is encouraging for Chinook salmon recovery efforts, said Kathleen O’Malley, an associate professor at Oregon State University and ...
5 days ago · An investigation by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks detected inadvertent releases of nonnative rainbow trout from the Creston National Fish Hatchery, which could further imperil native westslope ...
