[ODFW-News] ODFW to survey Nestucca River steelhead

[ODFW News]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, April 19, 2006
 
ODFW to survey Nestucca River steelhead 
 
TILLAMOOK -As part of an ongoing study of the hatchery winter steelhead
program, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will be conducting
surveys of adult steelhead in the Nestucca River basin during the next
few weeks.
 
Researchers are working to identify the composition of hatchery and wild
steelhead populations in the basin. ODFW personnel will be working in
the upper mainstem Nestucca River and the upper Three Rivers basin,
capturing adult steelhead using tangle nets. Sampling will be conducted
approximately one or two days each week through mid-to-late May. 
 
"This sampling will supplement our existing tributary surveys," said
Robert Bradley, ODFW assistant district fish biologist in Tillamook. "A
substantial number of steelhead utilize these larger river areas. In
order to be able to describe the mix of hatchery and wild fish in the
basin, our sampling efforts need to include these areas."
 
In order to avoid interfering with anglers, ODFW crews will be sampling
in areas with little or no overlap with ongoing sport fisheries. The
survey area in the upper Nestucca River currently is closed to angling,
and does not re-open until the end of May. The upper portion of Three
Rivers, while open to angling, receives little angling pressure this
time of year. 
###
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/pipermail/odfw-news/attachments/20060419/46dd2b43/attachment.htm