Scale sample from salmon

A smiling woman in ballcap and waders holds a fish scale in tweezers close to the lens.

Photo By/Credit

Julia Pinnix/USFWS

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

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Biologist Katy Pfannenstein holds up a Chinook salmon scale, one of the items collected during monitoring and evaluation of hatchery programs.

Facility

Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery

Mid-Columbia Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office

Species

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Subject tags

Anadromous fish

Fish hatcheries

Fishes

Monitoring

Research

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