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Return to Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery

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Updated May 15, 2026

Warm Springs operations are considered pivotal for the enhancement of anadromous fish runs, as well as meeting the resident salmonid program needs for the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. Enhancing anadromous fish runs in all reservation waters to meet the future needs of the resource as well as those of the Tribe is a high priority.

The hatchery also serves as a passage facility for wild Spring Chinook salmon, coho salmon, steelhead trout, and Pacific lamprey on their way further upriver. All fish travel up our fish ladder; we then pass the wild fish through the facility to continue to upper reaches of the Warm Springs River.

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