Golden State Salmon Association’s Trip To Clear Creek Shows Promise For Fish

A nice report from Golden State Salmon Association, as recently named new executive director Vance Staplin joined a group that is working on salmon restoration efforts at Sacramento River tributary Clear Creek. Here are some details from GGSA:

This year’s hatch box eggs come from a truly unique source. The female, referred to by everyone on site as the “Big Hen,” was genetically identified as a Feather River spring-run Chinook that had strayed into Upper Sacramento River.

Thanks to quick work by hatchery staff, her eggs were salvaged, fertilized, and preserved for restoration work.

The hen carried more than 7,200 eggs, so large that the team needed two hatch boxes to accommodate the entire brood.