The governor of Idaho was among those on hand Wednesday to celebrate
the release of 21 adult sockeye salmon into Redfish Lake — a signal of
success for a captive breeding program intended to revive a species listed
in 1991 as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
The release witnessed by Gov. Dirk Kempthorne was the fifth into the
lake from the broodstock program.
But this year’s release was different in that three of the 21 fish released
had made the 900-mile journey to the ocean
