Mixed Results for Idaho Sockeye Salmon Return This Year

Mixed Results for Idaho Sockeye Salmon Return This Year

By KEITH RIDLER

Source: Associated Press

10/5/2022

Credit: Travis Brown/Idaho Department of Fish and Game via AP

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.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game said Wednesday that 736 adult sockeye salmon completed the 900-mile (1,450-kilometer) trip from the Pacific Ocean to the high-elevation Stanley Basin at about 6,000 feet (1,800 meters). But only 46 came from adult fish that spawned naturally in Redfish Lake.

Snake River

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