MIA Chum Fry
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Grandpa Jim
Steelhead
From the article:
WDFW reports it will be able to replace 71 percent of more than 3.5 million chum fry lost at a Hood Canal hatchery that was hit by big flooding early this week.
Kinne said that 1 million replacement chum fry will come from surplus fish at McKernan Hatchery outside Shelton and 1.5 million from another facility on the Skokomish known as Rick’s Pond.
He said that 15 million chums are now being raised annually at Hoodsport, an uptick in production meant to also help out southern resident killer whales, and McKernan produces 11 million.
While the loss represents 9 percent of April 2022’s planned chum release from state hatcheries in the canal, WDFW said it “keeps pace with” levels over the past decade.
My comments:
3.5 million chum fry is just 9% of the planned chum release from state hatcheries in the Hood Canal this year?! I had no idea of that number of chum fry being stocked. Those are heavy duty commercial #s! Do the whales really target chum? I never read of orca pods in Puget Sound or the Canal around the time that the chum salmon are migrating to the terminal hatchery zones.
WDFW reports it will be able to replace 71 percent of more than 3.5 million chum fry lost at a Hood Canal hatchery that was hit by big flooding early this week.
Kinne said that 1 million replacement chum fry will come from surplus fish at McKernan Hatchery outside Shelton and 1.5 million from another facility on the Skokomish known as Rick’s Pond.
He said that 15 million chums are now being raised annually at Hoodsport, an uptick in production meant to also help out southern resident killer whales, and McKernan produces 11 million.
While the loss represents 9 percent of April 2022’s planned chum release from state hatcheries in the canal, WDFW said it “keeps pace with” levels over the past decade.
My comments:
3.5 million chum fry is just 9% of the planned chum release from state hatcheries in the Hood Canal this year?! I had no idea of that number of chum fry being stocked. Those are heavy duty commercial #s! Do the whales really target chum? I never read of orca pods in Puget Sound or the Canal around the time that the chum salmon are migrating to the terminal hatchery zones.
Grandpa Jim
Steelhead
Good to know, thanks!
This is a rather dated document but it gives you kind of an idea of the number of fish that were planted and the types of fish raised at each hatchery.
I’m sure there is a more updated one but I haven’t looked for it since WDFW updated their website.
You can make the list alphabetical by using the arrows at the top of the list.
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