Biologists use high-tech equipment to spy on Skagit River chum

Tribes are working with Seattle City Light to study Skagit River chum. The P-I reports:

SEDRO-WOOLLEY — On the Skagit River, biologists netted a 3-foot chum salmon with stripes the color of a bad bruise and vampire teeth just beginning to show.

The fish will be dead within a month. But during the next few weeks, they’ll learn more than they have in the past 30 years about how this wild fish behaves.

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