Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS);
FWS employee, Maria Montoya, gets close with a Fall Tule Chinook on her visit to Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery with other USFWS Pacific Region employees to help with Fall Tule Chinook spawning activities at the hatchery.
Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS);
Jane Chorazy, FWS External Affairs Specialist assists with one of the many spawning tasks. This one - mixing the harvested eggs with water and the milt (liquid containing the sperm) from the males.
This fish ladder leads directly from the Columbia River. Salmon returning from the Pacific Ocean travel hundreds of miles to reach the place of their birth. The salmon's sense of smell will lead them up the river, to the fish ladder and right back...
Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS); Service patch;
Reverse view of Service employees 'crowding' juvenile Tule Fall Chinook Salmon out of a Hatchery 'pond,' or raceway, en route to their entry into the Columbia River.
Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Employees (USFWS); Service patch;
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees move (known as 'crowding' juvenile Tule Fall Chinook salmon to the end of a raceway, or "pond," where the fish will enter an opened raceway gate, swim down a Hatchery channel, and then out the...
After being removed from a Hatchery raceway where they have spent the past few months, Tule Fall Chinook salmon pre-smolts swim down this channel, out the Hatchery intake pipe their parents entered six months ago, and enter the Columbia River.
