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Article: Yakamas restoring long-lost sockeye; Lake Cle Elum; Fish transplanted from dam to Yakima Basin.(NWMonday)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2009
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Byline: Jean Guerrero; Seattle Times staff reporter
For the first time in more than 100 years, Lake Cle Elum's sandy shorelines and streams will erupt in crimson patches late this summer as sockeye salmon turn from silver to red in preparation for spawning.
Yakama Nation members poured 1,000 adult sockeye into the northeast side of the lake earlier this month in an effort to restore a salmon run that had been key to the tribe's culture and survival.
"They were exterminated from this basin, but in reintroducing the run we're trying to repair these wrongs that have been made," said Paul Ward, manager of the Yakama Nation Fisheries Program.
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