ARLINGTON (Nov. 25, 2008) – Face down in frigid water, Stillaguamish biologist Jody Brown arranged plastic buckets of gravel in the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River.
The 2-quart buckets are artificial salmon nests, or redds, which the tribe is using to study the fine sediment that accumulates in the gravel where salmon spawn. (more…)
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BLYN (Feb. 14, 2003) — In the mid-1990s, fisheries biologists throughout the Pacific Northwest turned their attention on a small hatchery in the lower Dungeness River, where a new approach to restoring a dwindling chinook population was in the works. If successful, it was thought the project could improve hatchery techniques, and most importantly bring back a salmon species from the brink of extinction.
In 2003, attention once again has turned to the Hurd Creek hatchery near Sequim. Not because of the facility’s success with recovering wild salmon, but because the hatchery itself is close to extinction. Gov. Gary Locke’s proposed budget for the next two years calls for three state Department of Fish and Wildlife hatcheries to be closed, including the Hurd Creek facility.