Features
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Stock Exchange: Sustained Collaboration Produces Healthier Fish
What do you get when two hatchery programs combine forces?
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It's moving day at Quinault National Fish Hatchery!
We have had the Quinault Indian Nation's (Nation) Salmon River steelhead on station for about nine months and it’s time for them to go back the tribe's facilities!
what's happening at the hatchery
The Babies Are Out!
Coho, Steelhead, and Chum eggs spawned in fall 2017 are hatched and ready to be moved into raceways, fry are being ponded weekly! Visit the hatchery to see all the new babies and the juvenile smolts ready for release in April.
Recent Fish Returns
As of March 09, 2018, 2,726 (final) adult Steelhead have returned to Cook Creek.
As of March 09, 2018, 5,852 (final) adult Chum have returned to Cook Creek.
As of March 09, 2018, 21,569 (final) adult Coho have returned to Cook Creek.
Fisheries In the news
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March 30, 2018 - Idaho summer chinook fishing may heat up
March 28, 2018 - Idaho spring Chinook fishing set to open April 28
March 6, 2018 - JFAC sets Fish & Game budget, includes takeover of Hagerman Fish Hatchery from feds The Idaho Department of Fish & Game will take over
February 27, 2018 - Light Pollution Identified As Potential Issue For Threatened Puget Sound Chinook Salmon (KNKX Radio)
February 9, 2018 - The love of fishing hooks Stottlemyre, Graser Up one More Time
A hatchery in a rainforest
Quinault National Fish Hatchery is nestled into the rainforest near Olympic National Park. In the park's valleys are some of the largest remnants of ancient forests left in the country.
