During High Heat Columbia Gorge National Fish Hatchery Managers, Tribes Transfer, Release Juvenile Salmon; Warming Climate Presents Ongoing Challenge
Mike Clark and a team of fisheries professionals watched the weather forecast for late June and knew it meant serious problems for the more than 7 million salmon being reared in the Columbia River Gorge National Fish Hatcheries. Each day the weather forecast for the Pacific Northwest brought increasingly dire predictions. What started as 104 degrees soon became a forecast of 108 degrees.