This Year’s Smolt Arrive for Acclimation

Smolt acclimated at the Winchester Bay STEP site will instinctively return, as adults, to the site as an artificially pre-determined spawning location. By doing so, STEP salmon will not swim upriver to compete with wild populations on the spawning grounds. They linger in the boat basin creating a ” terminal fishery” and are captured as “Brood Stock” to reproduce offspring for 2023.