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It’s all smiles at GRWB STEP hatchery as a nearly full complement of 65 spawning pairs of Fall Chinook were collected this year. Approximately 233,000 eggs were harvested. The best…
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October 26th … Freshly trapped brood stock were brought in from Winchester Bay and added to the fish already in the holding pond. Fish selected for spawning are euthanized and…
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This year’s fall Chinook smolt (14,000) were released on Thursday, October 13th. The fish were very healthy and had grown to 7 and 8 inches during their acclimation period. This…
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GRWB’s brood stock trap was set in early September. To everyone’s surprise 118 fall Chinook salmon have been trapped so far. With Chinook angling slow in the lower river, it…
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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…
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September 12, 2022 CHARLESTON, Oregon – ODFW biologists are radio-tagging smallmouth bass in the Coquille River to learn more about these invasive non-native fish negatively impacting fall chinook salmon. Captured…
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Salmon angling in the Umpqua river may not be red hot but with our 2022 STEP salmon derby just a week away there have been a number of Chinook salmon…
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SALEM, Oregon. —Several coastal river basins (Nehalem, Tillamook, Nestucca, Siletz, Yaquina, Beaver Cr., Alsea, Umpqua, Coos) will be open to some wild coho harvest this year beginning as early as…
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