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Thanks goes to Redway Feed and Garden Supply and Town and Country Refrigeration, who enabled us to place additional chilled aquariums in local classrooms. These units have been responsible for both a high egg-to-release success rate, and for conserving water, because the old method required tap water running constantly to cool the aquariums.
We incubated 15,835 Chinook salmon eggs obtained from fish we trapped in Redwood Creek, and released 13,543 chinook salmon back into the creek. During our 17-year small-scale hatchery program we have planted 1,010,557 salmon and steelhead. All fish planted in recent years have been marked by removing the right ventral fin. If a marked fish is caught in the ocean, please contact ERSRP and Fish and Game.
We would like to thank the California Commercial Salmon Stamp Committee, the SB271 Committee, the Humboldt County Fish and Game Advisory Committee, the Trees Foundation Donor Advised Program, Town and Country Refrigeration, Redway Feed and Garden Supply, Sweet Home Realty, and AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards members Liz and Rachel for support provided to the Eel River Salmon Restoration Project. Thanks also to various local community members that are working toward restoration of the health and productivity of their individual watersheds and the local salmon and steelhead populations that depend on the habitats they provide.