Colville Tribes’ Selective Fishing Gear Tests Show Low Wild Summer Chinook Mortality

Central Washington’s Colville Tribes have seen early successes in tests of selective fishing gear that they say can increase the viability of wild salmon populations by allowing increased spawner escapement and lessening the straying of hatchery fish on to spawning grounds.

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