Webinar: Chum Salmon Conservation

[@loganfishbeard]

The most under appreciated Salmon species. I wish I was closer, I would love to give back to our great anadromous fisheries of the PNW.

[@clackamasriverbasincouncil9681]

We undertake large salmon habitat projects on the Clackamas River - you can read here: clackamasriver.org/current-projects/

[@billsmith5109]

@@clackamasriverbasincouncil9681Has anyone operated an RSI on the Clackamas. Or is there a lack of a healthy population in the lower Columbia to take a couple females’ eggs from? It is a quite low cost effort. A few would make one or two strays more likely to find a mate.

[@billsmith5109]

In a couple weeks you can see thousands, meaning tens of thousands, of chum just west of Olympia. See Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail.

[@clackamasriverbasincouncil9681]

Wow! That's amazing.

[@billsmith5109]

@@clackamasriverbasincouncil9681 See Googleearth, McLane Creek, Perry Creek, and Mud Bay, extension of Eld Inlet. One spring I live on Mud Bay. During season of outmigration of smolts there were dozens of great blue herons. I timed them. Each heron caught very close to two chum per minute. Bottom half of tide. Fewer per time at higher tide, very few at high tide. Quite the local food source. At a season I’d guess when food is not otherwise at peak for gbh.