You didn¹t ask, but I feel like telling you anyway..
Helen Engle
COHO FRY FOUND ABOVE ELWHA DAM SITE
For the first time in nearly 100 years, coho salmon fry reached the
upper Elwha River, above the site where the Elwha Dam once stood.
To encourage spawning above the dam, nearly 300 adult coho were
transferred last fall from the lower river to Indian Creek and Little River,
tributaries located between the fish-blocking Elwha and Glines Canyon dams.
Salmon have not made it past the dams since the early 20th century
when the dams were built without fish ladders. Since September 2011, the
dams have been deconstructed slowly a part of the internationally recognized
river restoration project.
Last fall the Lower Elwha Klallam tribal biologists released 70 pairs
of adult cohos in the Little River and have counted 65 egg nests, attesting
to the good habitat there.
This info by Tiffany Royal, Hood Canal/Strait of Juan de Fuca regional
information officer, from the quarterly of Northwest Indian Fisheries
Commission, summer 2012.
You didn¹t ask, but I feel like telling you anyway..
Helen Engle
COHO FRY FOUND ABOVE ELWHA DAM SITE
For the first time in nearly 100 years, coho salmon fry reached the
upper Elwha River, above the site where the Elwha Dam once stood.
To encourage spawning above the dam, nearly 300 adult coho were
transferred last fall from the lower river to Indian Creek and Little River,
tributaries located between the fish-blocking Elwha and Glines Canyon dams.
Salmon have not made it past the dams since the early 20th century
when the dams were built without fish ladders. Since September 2011, the
dams have been deconstructed slowly a part of the internationally recognized
river restoration project.
Last fall the Lower Elwha Klallam tribal biologists released 70 pairs
of adult cohos in the Little River and have counted 65 egg nests, attesting
to the good habitat there.
This info by Tiffany Royal, Hood Canal/Strait of Juan de Fuca regional
information officer, from the quarterly of Northwest Indian Fisheries
Commission, summer 2012.
