Spring Chinook at the Winthrop National Fish Hatchery

[@ryanleonnig8739]

Great video! We need more hatcheries thank you for everything you guys do for the fish and for the sportsman so they have a chance to catch fish

[@friendsofnwhatcheries]

Thanks for your support!

[@Patchwork_Panner]

Thank you guys.

[@friendsofnwhatcheries]

Our pleasure!

[@eriks9576]

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

[@Wockaflockafish]

Shouldn’t the spawned out salmon be returned to the river to boost nitrogen levels?

[@bkjeong4302]

This.

[@brianjohnston4207]

What should happen is surplus hatchery fish should be spawning in the wild

[@grantholmstrom3528]

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?

[@friendsofnwhatcheries]

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.

[@brianjohnston4207]

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.

[@puprilla]

Wow

[@nick.letsgofishing3030]

Great job on producing good natural fish. Now let us all buy our licenses and fish rod and reel. Stop the drift nets and illegal fishing practices.

[@jimmycarter2492]

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, 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@PKD253]

No more nets!

[@lukep1754]

Ahh man we just have to take down the dams they are outdated.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

[@heroryan7859]

Thank you! Let’s help stop dams!