Mixed results for Idaho sockeye salmon return this year
In this Sept. 17, 2020 file photo, provided by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Chelbee Rosenkrance, of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, holds a male sockeye salmon at the Eagle Fish Hatchery in Eagle, Idaho. More imperiled Snake River sockeye salmon returned to central Idaho this year than in nearly a decade, but biologists are disappointed few of them came from fish that spawned naturally in the wild. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game said Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, that 736 adult sockeye salmon completed the 900-mile trip from the Pacific Ocean to the high-elevation Stanley B…
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
BOISE — More imperiled Snake River sockeye salmon returned to central Idaho this year than in nearly a decade, but biologists are disappointed that few of them came from fish that spawned naturally in the wild....
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