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Rapid River Fish Hatchery (1220 words) |
 | The Rapid River hatchery is located beside a tributary of the Salmon River, near Riggins. |
| The fish begin to mature by mid-August and the females are sorted for ripeness and spawned. |
| River water flows through the incubators during the entire incubation cycle, from fertilization to the swim-up fry stage (approximately one year). |
| Tidepool | Features (1354 words) |
| The Klamath River fish kill of September 2002, when 68,000 salmon died because of low, warm water conditions on the lower river, is considered the largest of its kind in U.S. history. |
| River advocates and fishery biologists blame the fish kills on poor water management by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and on the continuing lack of flow and water temperature standards on the American, while federal officials claim that they are forced to balance the needs of different users in managing the river. |
| The fact that the fish died before spawning is a tremendous loss to the potential for fish restoration on the river, according to Felix Smith, board member of the Save the American River Association (SARA) and the federal wildlife biologist who was the whistleblower during the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge scandal of the early 1980s. |
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