Thursday, August 2, 1973
The Nyssa Oat« City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
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Sportsmen Anticipate Going After Record Number of Chinooks
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Sportsmen
whose idea of
"anglers* paradise" is the ex
plosive, linetautening tug of a
hefty adult spring Chinook sal
mon seldom had It so good as
they did this year.
The reason a record-break
ing number of adult springChi-
nooks returned to Idaho Power
Company’s Circle C hatchery
near here durine Mar. June
and July, not only providing
excitement for sportsmen in
the present but also promising
them still more in the future.
W. E. Smith, Idaho Power
environmental affairs director,
puts the total of this year’s re
turning migrants at more than
H.JOO.
This record return, he notes,
compares with the previous
high of some 13,000 spring
Chinook adults that "came
home" in 1972 to the hatchery
Idaho Power built on Rapid
River and continues to finance
for operation by the Idaho Fish
and
Opgrtment.
Besides that, according to
Smith, the 1973 returnees were
more than six times the num
ber Idaho Power must collect
to carry out its program of
transferring Hells Canyon-run
spring Chinook salmon and
steelhead to the Salmon River
watershed.
A Federal Power Commission
order directing the company to
build and maintain hatcheries
for lhe full-cycle program re
quires it to hatch, rear and
release the young from a mini
mum of 2,700 adult salmon
every year.
Whatever the number of Cir
cle C returnees this year,
sportsmen couldn’t have been
happier.
For with the twice-expanded
Idaho Power hatchery on Rapid
River filled to its capacity of
some 8,000 adults, the balance
of the homecoming natives were
released in other streams to
provide what Smith sees as a
"bonus’* resource for anglers.
Out of the total "surplus’*
of about 8,900 returnees, 5,500
were put into the Little Salmon
River at several points up
stream from Rapid River’s
mouth to Hazard Creek.
The Idaho FishandGame De
partment promptly boosted the
season limit on the Little Sal
mon to one adult salmon per day
up to a top of 10.
Another 1,500 of the surplus
adults were freed in the main
Salmon River upstream from
Riggins and the rest were truc
ked to North Idaho for release
in the South Fork of the Clear
water River.
Recognizing a good thing when
they saw it, sportsmen lined the
river banks near the release
points to try for the scrappy
salmon. Harvest results from
the releases are still incom
plete, but estimates of the num
ber of surplus adults caught
by sportsmen run as high as
6,000.
This bonus resource, as
Smith points out, was on top
of the adults taken before they
even turned into Rapid River
and headed for Idaho Power’s
collection facility.
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