Friends of Northwest Hatcheries, based in Leavenworth Washington is a non-profit 501(c)(3) volunteer organization whose focus is to support natural resource stewardship and education, in cooperation with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hatcheries of the Northwestern United States. This channel will be used to share videos that highlight hatcheries, events, programs, and natural resources education.
Friends of Northwest Hatcheries is associated with the Leavenworth, Entiat, Spring Creek, Carson, Winthrop, Makah, Willard, Little White, Quilcene, and Quinault National Fish Hatcheries in Washington State, the Dworshak and Kooskia National Fish Hatcheries in Idaho, and the Warm Spring and Eagle Creek National Fish Hatcheries in Oregon.
Swamp land make them into a pond too regulate the water flowing down a creek keep fish from dieing off no flow no oxygen in creek 😊 thay cannot live if no food for them in creek 😊
when will the salmon be self sustaining? These salmon hatcheries have been going on for decades. I don't see hatcheries for other fish like bass, catfish, carp, pike, pumpkin fish, chud etc... if this species of fish (salmon) are to useless to survive on their own then let them die out and spend the money on the homeless. Let nature take its course - salmon seem to be a very weak fish. Trout seem weak too. Darwin's theory is real. Close the hatcheries and give the money to the homeless.
That's sound science using wild broodstock but are you synching the hatchery smolts to return the same time as the wild fish? This is important for integrating them into the wild spawning population.
Once you broodstock the wild fish into hatchery fish you can let those first generation surplus adults spawn in the wild with the rest of the Chinook as long as you time them to return at the same time as wild Chinook,and don't increase the temperatures in the rearing ponds.
Loved the model so clever .. some really small picky comments ... 1/ paint the fins as fins ... there is no orange meat in them .. 2/ Make the orange part lift off too and show the skeleton to complete the biology lesson. 😊
Simply stunning. And as someone who grew up being able to see the Columbia River from my back yard in Southeast Washington, the story of the Salmon your grandmother told certainly seems very relevant today!
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It's a shame we destroy their natural way of spawning, hope we're able to keep them around, alot don't realize that if we destroy our natural environment, man is soon to follow, 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Folks it’s not about more hatcheries. In case many of don’t really notice. Many hatcheries are nolonger in use. Do to government budget cuts. Or many hatcheries no longer raise fish to the hatcheries full capacity. Take for example steelhead hatcheries in the SW Wa area. Each hatchery would release smolts by the hundreds of thousands. Modern smolt releases are cut now by 2 thirds. So more hatcheries are not the real solution. Washington states fishing license sales have fallen drastically because of the very low adult returns any more. Less adults equates less success for time spent trying to catch a adult salmon or steelhead. So the state suffers with poor license sales. See what’s happening here? One of the big issues is most politicians in Washington state don’t fish. They really don’t care what so ever about fish management. So it’s not even on any politician’s agenda. I’m surprised any of the state’s hatcheries get any funding at all.
Ahh man we just have to take down the dams they are outdated. We wouldn’t have to put money so much money into stocking and the fish populations would grow drastically for wild salmon
When I was there 2 years ago, the lady we talked to there, said they were finding cataracts in the coho smolts as they were going out of the hatchery and didn’t know why.... What’s the latest in that development?
Staff at the hatchery and from the National Fish Health Center work closely together to maintain the health of the fish. From 2016-2019, cataracts were found in less than 1% of spring Chinook smolts. The cause remains unknown. But happily, no cataracts have been found in 2020 or in 2021. And no cataracts at all have been found in coho or steelhead.
awesome, thanks for your hard work! Now mabey we can up the production on other hatcheries to have more fish with good practices like you guys have! greetings from PDX
