Coho Salmon

Squaxin Natural Resources blog on smolt trapping

Over at the Squaxin Island Tribe natural resource’s blog, they just added some new content on their smolt trapping efforts.
From the post:

The Squaxin Island Natural Resources (SINR) is currently collecting data to estimate the number of coho salmon smolts outmigrating from Mill, Cranberry, Goldsborough, Schumacher and Sherwood Creeks. These five creeks empty in to Deep South Puget Sound, with in the Squaxin Island Tribes usual and accustom areas.

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SVH: Restoration project best for coho, Skagit

The Skagit Valley Herald commended a recent project on the Upper Skagit Reservation, which brought coho salmon to tribal land for the first time in 50 years:

You’ve got to give the coho salmon high marks for persistence. For 50 years, coho had been trying to fight their way back to spawning grounds on the Upper Skagit Reservation. And for 50 years, man-made obstacles and sediment deposits blocked their way. Still they came.

Now, a restoration project on Red Creek, north of Sedro-Woolley, has made it possible for the coho to spawn again on the reservation.

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Coho return to Upper Skagit reservation

The Skagit Valley Herald:

For the first time in 50 years, the coho salmon have returned to the Upper Skagit Reservation.

To get them there, crews had to tear out a series of stacked culverts and remove 300 dump-truck loads of sediment that blocked the cohos’ path upstream.

The tribe and Skagit County also worked together to restore a lower section of Red Creek and one of its tributaries, channeling the water into two streams. This makes it easier for the 6- to 8-pound fish that had been forced to swim across a flooded field to reach the creek to spawn.

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State-tribal project marks century of saving salmon

The Seattle Times and the Marysville Globe reported on 100 years of hatchery cooperation.

The Seattle Times:

The Tulalip Tribes continued a century-old tradition last week of partnering with state hatcheries for the increased production of Puget Sound salmon.

Since 1907, tribal members have traveled to the Wallace River Hatchery near Gold Bar, working with employees of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to improve chinook- and coho-salmon numbers in the Snohomish River system.

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