August 2008
9 posts
Idaho Statesman untangles the Snake River Sockeye... →
Long at extinction levels, the Snake River sockeye salmon are returning to the Stanley Basin in record numbers this summer. It’s due to a record outmigration of smolts in 2006, favorable river flows, court-ordered increased spill at the hydroelectric dams and apparently more favorable ocean conditions for the Columbia and Snake River sockeye.
Six weeks ago Federal fish managers professed...
