Coleman National Fish Hatchery Will Release 12 Million Chinook Salmon Smolts

The U.S Fish and Wildlife announced today that the Coleman National Fish Hatchery will be releasing 12.6 million Chinook salmon smolts in phases between April 23, and May 2, 2008. The Chinook smolts, 3 inches in length, have been raised at Coleman NFH in Anderson, California as part of the hatchery?s role in mitigating for the Shasta and Keswick dams on the upper Sacramento River. For the first time in over a decade, Coleman NFH will truck 1.4 million of the 12.6 million Chinook salmon smolts from the hatchery over 300 miles to San Pablo Bay to assess the effect of the release site on salmon harvest and returns to the hatchery.

The smolts trucked to San Pablo Bay will be placed in net pens operated by the Fishery Foundation of California for acclimatization and then released in to the bay. A portion of the smolts will have coded-wire tags to identify them as part of this experiment. As these smolts are harvested...More>>>

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