Service employee collects female Fall Chinook salmon eggs

Photo By/Credit

Hagerty, Ryan/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
09/16/2014
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
The eggs are removed from the females and placed in a container. Each female Chinook has between 4,000-5,000 eggs. Pacific Northwest Fisheries.
Facility
Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery
Species
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Subject tags
Work of the Service
Service patch
Scientific personnel (USFWS)
Research
Fishes
Fisheries management
Fish hatcheries
Endangered and/or Threatened species
Biologists (USFWS)