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Idaho Fish & Game Trucking Sockeye Salmon from Lower Granite Dam on Snake River by Evan Ellis Big Country News, July 22, 2024

The sockeye were also trucked during the hot summers of 2015 and 2019

COLFAX -- This summer’s above average run of sockeye salmon up the Lower Snake River into Idaho is allowing managers to keep some fish to spawn at a hatchery.

The agency has begun trucking the endangered fish from Lower Granite Dam on the Snake to the Eagle Hatchery near Boise. About 1,000 sockeye have reached the dam South of Colfax just downriver from Idaho. The fish are on a 900 mile journey to their spawning grounds near Stanley.

Idaho Fish and Game reports that unseasonably warm temperatures in the Upper Salmon River are threatening sockeye survival. About 150 sockeye have been trucked from Lower Granite to the hatchery to ensure future generations of the run. Fish and game will continue the truck transports. The sockeye were also trucked during the hot summers of 2015 and 2019.

This summer’s Idaho sockeye run is already the 7th largest since counting began in 1975. Those fish normally start arriving in Stanley around the third week of July.

Related Pages:
Count the Fish, 1977 - 2023 by GAO, Salmon Recovery Efforts