CHILOQUIN, Ore. — A team of researchers is testing the waters to revive chinook salmon in the Upper Klamath Basin.
In April, biologists released about 8,000 smolts in the Wood and Williamson rivers above Upper Klamath Lake as part of an ongoing experiment tracking their movement using tiny acoustic tags and passive integrated transponders, or PIT tags.Â
Juvenile chinook salmon reared at ODFW’s Klamath Hatchery on Crooked Creek.
Courtesy of Mark Hereford
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Staff from the Klamath Tribes, ODFW and Trout Unlimited surgically implanting acoustic tags into juvenile chinook salmon at ODFW’s Klamath Hatchery.
Courtesy of Mark Hereford
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Tagged chinook salmon after being released into the Williamson River.
Courtesy of Mark Hereford
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