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.
Subject tags
Work of the Service
Service patch
Scientific personnel (USFWS)
Research
Fishes
Fisheries management
Fish hatcheries
Endangered and/or Threatened species
Biologists (USFWS)