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If you fish and hunt in Oregon, you’ll likely be impacted by the new proposed Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) ...
In a few months, Whatcom Creek at Maritime Heritage Park will be teeming with activity as salmon swim toward fresh water to reproduce at the end of their life cycle. That’s where the salmon hatchery ...
Will hatchery-raised salmon have a better chance of surviving their journey to the Pacific Ocean and back if they get a 75-mile head start? That's the question a three-year study hopes to answer ...
Anglers have more time to go after hatchery steelhead on Salmon Creek. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife set the season beginning Sunday (March 16) through May 23. The WDFW said in a ...
Proponents fear hatchery salmon are out-competing other salmon species like chinook in the marine environment. But hatchery professionals warn that the reduction could harm Alaska's seafood sector.
For 10 years, Food Share of Lincoln County processed and distributed hatchery salmon to community food pantries all over the coastal region, sharing about 2,000 pounds of the protein-rich fish a year.
Between 80 and 200 Chinook salmon spawn at Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Gold River each day from early November through this Friday, ending their life cycle with an ascent up the fish ladder to the ...
The Tsilhqot’in National Government in British Columbia says it has formed a "historic partnership" with the federal Fisheries Department to develop a permanent salmon conservation hatchery in ...
The Washougal River winter steelhead hatchery program will close near the end of the year. The Deep River net pens coho salmon program in Wahkiakum County will close by April. And the Kalama River ...
The Seymour Salmon Hatchery in North Vancouver hosts “Gently Down the Seymour,” a program where students use microscopes and thermometers to explore the life and habitat of the Seymour River ...
Drawn by late-summer rains, hatchery-produced Chinook salmon are returning to the mouth of Whatcom Creek in downtown Bellingham, said the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW ...
Some 1–5% — millions of individuals a year — stray into nearby streams, where they can breed with wild salmon. Alaskan state law prohibits hatchery production from harming wild salmon ...