Positive trend continues for sockeye program - Northwest Treaty Tribes

Positive trend continues for sockeye program - Northwest Treaty Tribes

A PSE staff member lifts a fish from a holding tank at the Upper Baker Dam for counting by species during the annual outmigration of juvenile sockeye salmon. Other fish in the lake include coho salmon and varieties of sculpin. Among salmon of the Skagit River watershed, a rebounding population of Baker River sockeye continues to make a splash. PSE fish and wildlife specialist Josiah Lugg counts fish from Baker Lake by species after they’ve enter…