WDOE Accepting Comments On Draft Permits For Cooke Aquaculture To Farm Native Steelhead In Four Puget Sound Pens
September 11th, 2020
Cooke Aquaculture is going through the multi-agency permitting process to change the type of fish it raises in four Puget Sound net pens from non-native Atlantic salmon to native steelhead.
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Idaho Reduces Hatchery Steelhead Bag Limit Due To Low Expected Returns (40 Percent Of Average); So Far At Lower Granite 60 Percent Of Run Wild Fish
August 27th, 2020
With the run of summer steelhead expected to return to the Snake River basin at about 40 percent of the 10-year average, the Idaho Fish and Wildlife Commission at its meeting Thursday, Aug. 20, reduced the number of the fish anglers in the state can keep when fishing the Salmon, Little Salmon and Snake rivers. Steelhead angling opens on those rivers Sept. 1.
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Alaska Salmon Getting Smaller, Returning To Rivers Younger; Climate Change, Competition With Growing Numbers Of Hatchery Fish In Ocean
August 19th, 2020
The size of salmon returning to rivers in Alaska has declined dramatically over the past 60 years because they are spending fewer years at sea, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Endangered Snake River Sockeye Arriving At Idaho’s Sawtooth Basin, Numbers Better Than Last Year’s Dismal Return
August 6th, 2020
The first two sockeye salmon completed their 900 mile journey through eight Columbia and Snake river dams and up the Salmon River, climbing 6,500 feet in elevation and arriving in Idaho’s Sawtooth Basin over the weekend.
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NOAA Fisheries Taking Comments On Clackamas Hatchery Spring Chinook Program, Moving From Segregated To Integrated Broodstock
August 6th, 2020
NOAA Fisheries is taking public comment on its proposal to issue an Endangered Species Act determination for the Clackamas Hatchery Spring Chinook Salmon program, which moved this year from a segregated to an integrated broodstock program. Natural-origin spring chinook salmon will be spawned at the hatchery to bolster the genetic diversity of the broodstock and reduce genetic divergence from the wild stock.
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Bacterial Outbreak Forces Euthanization Of 3.2 Million Fish At California Hatcheries
July 30th, 2020
Three California Department of Fish and Wildlife fish hatchery facilities in the eastern Sierra and Southern California have been battling a bacterial outbreak that has affected 3.2 million fish. Last week, after consultation with fish pathology experts and exhausting all avenues of treatment, CDFW announced that the fish, which are all trout, at the affected facilities must be euthanized in order to stop the spread of the outbreak.
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Decades-Old Snake River Hatcheries Underfunded For Infrastructure Needs; Produce 20 Million Juvenile Salmon/Steelhead Each Year
July 16th, 2020
A five-year plan for non-recurring maintenance needs and infrastructure fixes at aging 35-to-40-year-old Snake River hatcheries shows a budget that is $5 million short, raising the question of who pays, according to managers and operators at the hatcheries who laid out their funding needs at the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Fish and Wildlife Committee meeting Tuesday, July 14.
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NOAA Fisheries Releases For Comment Proposed ESA Determinations, Draft Environmental Assessment On Mid-Columbia Hatcheries
July 16th, 2020
NOAA Fisheries is offering for public review and comment a proposal to issue Endangered Species Act determinations for hatchery operations in the Hood River, Touchet River, Umatilla River, and Deschutes River basins.
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NW Power/Conservation Council Approves $500,000 For Hatchery/Screens Maintenance In FY2021
June 25th, 2020
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council approved a half million dollars for fiscal year 2021 in projects to maintain the region’s investments in hatcheries and screens.