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Eel River Salmon Restoration Project
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OUR FOUR MAIN COMPONENTS:
1) Supplementation fish culture. Focused mainly on the Redwood Creek watershed,
we have concentrated on chinook salmon but also have experience spawning and rearing
coho salmon and steelhead. To date this project has been responsible for the release of
976,413 salmon and steelhead. Of these releases, 436,517 have been marked.
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2) Habitat improvement. To date we have completed a wide variety of instream
habitat improvement structures, fish passage improvement projects and erosion control
projects. We have planted thousands of trees, both hardwoods and conifers, in riparian
and upslope areas.
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3) Monitoring. During spawning season we conduct carcass and redd surveys. Our
marking program has allowed monitoring of hatchery and wild stock ratios. We also have
an ongoing downstream migrant trapping program used to monitor natural salmonid
production and changes in non-game fish populations.
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4) Education. We have an active salmonids in the classroom school program for which the culture program supplies eyed chinook salmon eggs for classroom incubation. The AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Project has played an important part in this education program by developing and offering quality curriculum to classes involved with the salmonids in the classroom program.
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