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Posts Tagged ‘Deconstruction’

Seattle Times: Elwha Steelhead Broodstock Program Successful

By • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: NWIFC Blog

The Seattle Times posted this story about Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s steelhead broodstock program efforts recently:

Tribe reviving wild Elwha steelhead

In an effort to keep the wild steelhead in the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula from disappearing forever, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is hard at work raising them in a hatchery.

The fish being raised at the tribe’s hatchery aren’t hatchery fish, but



Major Success in Lower Elwha Klallam Steelhead Broodstock Program

By • Jun 10th, 2009 • Category: News

LOWER ELWHA – The setup looks complicated. Two tables covered with data sheets, laptops, glass slides, a digital scale and instruments for taking blood samples are set up next to the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s hatchery ponds. Steelhead are being pulled from the ponds and weighed, measured, sampled and spawned. Each of nearly a dozen people have a specific job in this organized chaos to help …