While Ordered To Stop Summer Steelhead Hatchery Releases On North Santiam, Oregon Will Continue Program For Other Willamette Basin Rivers
In a statement this week, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife noted the narrow impact of a recent District Court ruling that put a stop to the agency’s release of hatchery summer steelhead into a tributary of the Willamette River. The Sept. 14 opinion and order by U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken in…