Study: Flow Agreements For Hanford Reach Fall Chinook Have Boosted Productivity 283 Percent

By adjusting water discharges in ways designed to boost salmon productivity, officials at a dam in central Washington were able to more than triple the numbers of juvenile fall chinook salmon downstream of the dam over a 30-year period, according to a study published Tuesday (Feb. 25) in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences’ online edition.

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