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Mixed Results for Idaho Sockeye Salmon Return This Year 
By KEITH RIDLER US Source: Associated Press 10/5/2022
KEITH RIDLER
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.

 
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