Repeat Steelhead Spawners (Kelts): University of Idaho Study Looks At Differences In Consecutive Spawning Vs. Skip Spawners
August 8th, 2019
Steelhead repeat spawners, known as kelts, grow quickly with greater blood fat levels soon after their first spawning, a signal that they will repeat spawning in the first year, according to a recent study.
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Study Investigates Reasons For Straying Of Hatchery Fish In Coastal River; Lack Of Unique Odor Cue Cited
July 23rd, 2019
Hatchery females and larger chinook salmon are less likely to return to their hatchery of origin than they are to spawn naturally with wild fish in the Elk Creek basin on the Oregon Coast, even as smaller chinook and males tend to return to the hatchery, according to a recent study.
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Council Recommendations For 48 Fish/Wildlife Projects, $43 Million A Year, Out For Public Review
July 18th, 2019
Some 48 fish and wildlife projects that will cost $43.5 million each year – hatchery work, data management, research -- were reviewed and approved by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Fish and Wildlife Committee at its meeting this week in Butte, Montana.
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New Columbia Basin Partnership Report Offers Regional Goals For Salmon/Steelhead Recovery
July 17th, 2019
Some five to 16 million salmon and steelhead had historically returned to the Columbia River basin, but just an average of two million fish return today and only 40 percent of those are naturally produced stocks. If goals in a new Columbia Basin Partnership Task Force report can be met in the next 50 to 100 years, the number of naturally produced fish could increase by eight-fold.
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Idaho Workgroup Meets On Developing State Position On Salmon Recovery, More Meetings Set
July 11th, 2019
Idaho recently launched a collaborative effort aimed at guiding salmon-steelhead conservation policy, with the Republican Gov. Brad Little urging a diverse, appointed workgroup to consider practical goals rather than getting bogged down in complex and controversial measures such as breaching lower Snake River dams.
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USFWS Releases Draft Recovery Plan For Kootenai River White Sturgeon; Stay The Course With Current Restoration
June 27th, 2019
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a draft recovery plan for Kootenai River white sturgeon that mainly stays the course with restoration activities that have been underway for the last decade.
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Hatchery Vs. Wild: Steelhead Study Explores Influences Of Hatchery Environment When Genetics Equal
June 20th, 2019
Recently completed research is throwing light on why steelhead with seemingly identical genetic makeup – hatchery produced and natural populations – perform differently in the wild, impacting lifetime fitness.
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Upper Columbia Tribes’ Phase I Report On Salmon Reintroduction/Fish Passage Above Chief Joseph/Grand Coulee Dams: Enough Upstream Habitat To Support Over 17,000 Spawning Chinook, Steelhead; Larger Numbers Of Sockeye
June 13th, 2019
There is plenty of habitat available for reintroduction of spawning and rearing anadromous salmon and steelhead upstream of Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams, according to a recently completed report by upper Columbia River tribes.
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Details On Proposed Detroit Dam Water Temperature Control Tower, Fish Passage Facility To Boost ESA-Listed Steelhead, Spring Chinook
May 30th, 2019
Responding to the reasonable and prudent alternative outlined in NOAA Fisheries’ 2008 biological opinion for federal Willamette Valley dams, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last week proposed to build a selective withdrawal structure at Detroit Dam at a cost of about $100 to $200 million.The SWS would provide water temperature control downstream of Detroit and Big Cliff dams on the North Santiam River and it would provide downstream juvenile fish passage. The Corps would continue to transport adult chinook salmon and steelhead upstream of both dams where they can spawn naturally.