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Key Issue: Steelhead Hatcheries
Recommended Reading: Six books about wild steelhead management in Pacific Northwest
We recommend the following six books to help you get started in understanding the plight of wild steelhead and salmon in the Pacific Northwest and the complicated nature of their management.
Interim Agreement Protects Wild Elwha Steelhead From Hatchery Release
Non-native hatchery steelhead will not be released into the Elwha River and its tributaries this year, say four conservation groups that earlier this month filed suit against federal agencies and officials of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (in their official capacities) for releases of hatchery fish into the Elwha.
WSC Efforts Secure Important Protection for Early Winter Steelhead Runs on the Olympic Peninsula
During the WDFW Major Regulation Cycle of 2009, the WSC proposed a harvest closure of wild steelhead during the early winter months (December, January and half of February) that allowed fishing to continue by catch and release. That proposal was adopted by the WDFW Commission and became a formal regulation last year. The following is a rewrite of the justification the WSC provided WDFW to justify this new regulation.
Wild Steelhead Research on the Sauk and Skagit Rivers
(This article was featured in the November 2010 issue of WSC’s newsletter, The Adipose.) By Chris Grieve Most of the Wild Steelhead Coalition members are aware that the Sauk and Skagit rivers were closed early the last two years during the winter seasons. Many of you probably didn’t know that…
Proposed Klickitat Hatchery Plan threatens Steelhead
The Wild Steelhead Coalition collaborates with other wild fish advocacy organizations to comment on the potential Klickitat River Basin hatchery expansion.
WSC Position on Elwha River Hatcheries
In September 2011 dam removal began on the Elwha River marking the beginning of the greatest river restoration project in history. Over the next two years, Glines Canyon and Elwha dams will be removed giving salmon access to over 90 miles of habitat, much of which is protected within the…
