Peering through a microscope at the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek Hatchery, biologist Tiffany Linbo uses two pairs of tweezers to gently peel the protective layer off an 18-day-old fertilized coho salmon egg. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) biologist needs to do it without piercing the yolk sac so Washington State University (WSU) toxicologist […]
Juvenile coho salmon transferred into Port Gamble Bay this winter are settling into a brand new net pen to rear until they are released this spring. After the 25-year-old net pen structure was severely damaged during several winter storms in 2012, the tribe decided to replace both the structure and nets. “The whole thing needed […]
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe says that changes to the Elwha River are occurring faster than anticipated since deconstruction of the two fish-blocking dams on the Elwha River started in 2011. The most recent milestone is the 4,700 chinook salmon that returned to the river this year – the most since 1992. “The overall return […]
Rain gardens filter toxic chemical contaminants from stormwater before it flows into Puget Sound streams, but no one knows how well they protect the salmon that spawn in those streams. That was this year’s question during the annual coho salmon stormwater experiment at the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek Hatchery. Since 2011, tribal, federal and state […]
For the first time in nearly 100 years, coho salmon fry have reached the upper Elwha River, above the site where the fish-blocking Elwha Dam once stood. To encourage spawning above the dam, nearly 300 adult coho were transferred last fall from the lower river to Indian Creek and Little River, tributaries located between the […]
In a unique partnership, the Suquamish Tribe and the U.S. Navy recently transferred more than 300,000 juvenile coho salmon to the tribe’s net pen in Agate Pass for the third year in a row. “Working with the U.S. Navy to help move the coho smolts has been key to the success of the program since […]
The Kitsap Sun and North Kitsap Herald published reports about the annual transfer of coho salmon smolts from the state’s George Adams hatchery in Shelton to the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s net pens in Port Gamble Bay near Kingston. The fish will stay in the net pens until June, when they’ll be released. The fish are […]
Biologist David Baldwin pours a mixture of copper, zinc, lead and other pollutants into a large tank of water at the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek Hatchery, then slips four adult coho salmon into the dirty brown liquid. The poisonous soup he creates is aimed to simulate the kind of stormwater runoff to which salmon are […]
The Kitsap Sun reported on this fall’s expected fish returns to Kitsap’s watersheds with the inundation of the November rain storms. From the story: Recent rains are bringing forth a surge of chum and coho salmon into streams across the Kitsap Peninsula. With salmon on the move, this weekend might be a good time for […]
KCTS/Earthfix just posted a video and a story about last week’s release of 50 adult coho salmon into the Elwha River, between the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams, near the Highway 101 Bridge. From the story: PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Standing on the banks of the Elwha River on a crisp November afternoon last week, Mel […]
