+3 News Wenatchee Valley school kids — and salmon — converge on Rocky Reach Dam's Discovery Center By Emily ThorntonWorld staff writer Jun 2, 2022 WENATCHEE — Salmon have begun their annual trek up the Columbia River and through dams, including Rocky Reach, one of Chelan County PUD’s hydr…
News 250,000 steelhead smolts lost after equipment failure at hatchery on Snake River By Eli FrancovichThe Spokesman-Review Feb 3, 2022 WASHTUCNA — State wildlife managers have lost nearly 25,000 steelhead smolts from a rearing pond at the Lyons Ferry Hatchery on the Snake Rive…
Business Washington state Supreme Court OKs steelhead farming for Cooke Aquaculture By Lynda V. Mapes The Seattle Times Jan 14, 2022 OLYMPIA — Permits that will allow Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm steelhead trout in net pens in Washington waters were upheld in a unanimou…
+2 Opinion Opinion | Leah Hemberry: Dredge mining bill would protect Wenatchee Valley watershed Leah Hemberry Jan 31, 2020 I grew up at the confluence of the Wenatchee River and the Peshastin Creek on a pear and apple orchard. My childhood was filled with memories …
Business Company agrees to pay $2.75M to settle lawsuit over salmon net-pen collapse By Evan BushThe Seattle Times Nov 30, 2019 CYPRESS ISLAND — Cooke Aquaculture has reached a settlement to pay $2.75 million in legal fees and to fund Puget Sound restoration projects, p…
Business New Wynoochee Dam Mitigation Would Put More Fish in the Chehalis Sep 9, 2019 Sept. 09-- Sep. 9--A public meeting has been scheduled in Montesano in order to discuss a new plan to put more salmon and steelhead into the L…
Fish Viewing 2011 005.jpg Provided photo / Chelan County PUD Jul 16, 2019 Fish viewing room at the Visitor Center at Rocky Reach Dam in July 2011.
Business Projects to help fish: Salmon recovery efforts highlighted in Yakima Basin Luke Thompson Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jul 12, 2019 July 12-- Jul. 12--Cowiche Creek is a good place to start when it comes to salmon and steelhead success stories in the Yakima Basin.
Business Out of Doors Report: Riverside Adventures With Guitar Papa and Remembering Not to Forget By Jordan Nailon jnailon@chronline.com The Chronicle, Centralia, Wash. Jun 22, 2019 June 22-- Jun. 22--When Papa's in town, there's so much to do. Hand in hand and shadow on shadow, he and his towhead grandson roam wherever ad…
+6 Local News Fish Tales | Spring brings salmon smolt freedom By Julia PinnixLeavenworth Fisheries Complex May 7, 2019 After nearly two years of nurturing, salmon and steelhead from our three hatcheries are on the loose, swimming downstream towards the open oce…