Tribal, state and federal agencies have agreed to a diversified approach that would use captive brood and conventional hatchery practices to sustain salmon runs in the Grande Ronde Basin of northeastern Oregon.
“All in all, we’d like to see runs restored to harvest levels,” said Dave Johnson, manager of the Nez Perce Fisheries Program, “but the program also illustrates the highly unusual actions we would take to try to keep salmon runs from disappearing.”
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