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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2015 Welcome back, good (salmon) chums Project bringing chum salmon to our streams shows success Columbia Basin Bulletin A chum salmon reintro- duction project has quietly and successfully moved be- \RQG LWV ¿IWK \HDU LQ WKH &R lumbia River between Astoria DQG&ODWVNDQLH Once one of the most abun- dant of salmon species in the &ROXPELD 5LYHU FKXP VDOP on made up as much as 7 per- cent to 10 percent of historical VDOPRQUXQVZLWKDVPDQ\DV 1 million fall-run chum salm- on returning to the river in 7KDWZDVWKHVDPH\HDU that the commercial harvest of FKXPZDV¿VK 7KH VSHFLHV ZHQW LQWR GH cline due to harvest and as KDELWDW GHJUDGHG DQG KDV been in decline since the VDQGV,WZDVOLVWHG as threatened under the feder- al Endangered Species Act in ,W¶V DOVR RQH RI WKH PRVW broadly distributed species of VDOPRQ LQ WKH 1RUWK 3DFL¿F 2FHDQ ,W ZDV RQFH IRXQG DV far south as the Sacramento River and as far north as the 0DFNHQ]LH 5LYHU LQ $ODV ND DQG IURP 5XVVLD VRXWK WKURXJK.RUHD ,Q WKH &ROXPELD 5LYHU chum salmon were found as high up in the river system as &HOLOR)DOOVDQGDFFRUGLQJWR .ULV+RPHOWKHFKXPVDOPRQ reintroduction manager with the Oregon Department of )LVK DQG :LOGOLIH WKHUH DUH XQFRQ¿UPHG UHSRUWV RI VHH LQJ FKXP LQ WKH :DOOD :DOOD 5LYHU +RPHO EHJDQ KHU ZRUN ZLWK2'):LQDQGZDV WKH ¿UVW FKXP UHLQWURGXFWLRQ PDQDJHU DW WKH VWDWH DJHQF\ 7KH UHLQWURGXFWLRQ SURMHFW LV IXQGHG E\ 12$$ )LVKHULHV¶ 3DFL¿F &RDVWDO 6DOPRQ 5H FRYHU\)XQG EO Media Group/File Photos Brian Alfonse of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife prepares to release an adult chum salmon in a stream near Clatskanie in December as part of an ongoing restoration project. LEFT: An adult chum salmon is pulled form a holding tank in preparation of being released into an Oregon river in December. RIGHT: A dead chum salmon lies on the side of a stream near Clatskanie. 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