Since 1991, only 17 sockeye salmon had made the trip home from the Pacific
Ocean to spawn near the headwaters of the Salmon River in Idaho’s Stanley
Basin.
That two-a-year average could swell this year with two fish already
completing their journey. They now await their spawning fate at central
Idaho’s Sawtooth Hatchery. At least 21 others are still trying to negotiate
the final 430-mile leg of their migration.
The two sockeye that returned to the Sawtooth Hatchery weir over the
past …
