Winnemem Wintu children deliver salmon eggs to McCloud River incubator

Two children dip their arms into a blue plastic barrel full of water

Winnemem Wintu children deliver salmon eggs to McCloud River incubator

Two Winnemem Wintu children place cups full of winter-run Chinook salmon eggs into a remote-site incubator where the eggs will mature before being released into the McCloud River.

Image

Photo By/Credit

Brandon Honig/USFWS

Facility

Coleman National Fish Hatchery

Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery

Red Bluff Fish and Wildlife Office

Lodi Fish and Wildlife Office

San Francisco Bay-Delta Fish and Wildlife Office

Ecosystem

River/stream

Species

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Subject tags

Anadromous fish

Fish hatcheries

Fisheries

Fisheries management

Fishes

Rivers and streams