WAHLE and CHANEY: ESTABLISHMENT OF NONINDIGENOUS RUNS OF SALMON 



Table 7. — Spring chinook salmon, eggs, and juveniles by brood year transported from Carson National 



Fish Hatchery 1960-79. 



'Abbreviations: (W.D.F.) Washington Department of Fisheries, 

 and Wildlife Service, (FC.G.) Fish Commission of Oregon. 

 2N.RH. - National Fish Hatchery. 



(I.F.&G.) Idaho Fish and Game Department, (U.S.F&W.) U.S. Fish 



at Columbia River mile 146.1 and transferred to 

 Carson National Fish Hatchery on the upper 

 Wind River. About 10.6 million yearling progeny 

 of these fish were released into Wind River. 



From 1959 to 1979, about 66,000 adult spring 

 chinook salmon returned to Carson Hatchery. 

 During that period about 37 million yearling 

 progeny of the 1955-77 broods were released into 



Wind River. Surveys of natural spawning grounds 

 during 1959-78 recorded a peak number of 1,476 

 spring chinook salmon in 1962 and 527 redds 

 in 1964. A spring chinook salmon sport fishery 

 developed within the Wind River drainage and at 

 its confluence with the Columbia River at the 

 mouth of the Wind. Marking and mark sampling 

 programs indicated Wind River spring chinook 



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