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Article: SPECIAL SALMON EGGS HOLD POTENTIAL FOR RETURN OF COHO TO YAKIMA RIVER.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 12, 1999
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Eggs collected from a special group of coho salmon at a Yakima River fish hatchery offer hope for reviving a run that hasn't been seen on the river for decades.
The Yakama Indian Nation and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife collected the eggs last fall from coho that had traveled up the Yakima.
What made these Yakima River coho special was that they started life years earlier as eggs on the lower Columbia River. The captured eggs are called a brood stock. The hope is the transplants can revive the Yakima River coho run.
``It proves that coho can actually make it back up over four dams successfully in numbers that would produce the brood ...