Bacterial Gill Disease Strikes Spring Creek Hatchery, Forces Emergency Release Of 11 Million Juvenile Fall Chinook

Due to an outbreak of bacterial gill disease, some 10.8 million juvenile fall chinook salmon have been released over the past week from U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery upstream of Bonneville Dam.

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