Northwest fishing blog
Thanks to grant money, 1500′ of North Creek in Snohomish county at the Clearwater School and Clearwater Commons properties has been restored as natural a state as possible. It is good to see people working to ‘fix’ what we have managed to screw up in our rampant development of the Puget Sound watershed.
This is a good thing! The the Washington State Department of Natural Resources has designated 24,000 acres of aquatic space as a preserve. This area off Protection Island will help preserve and promote eelgrass beds and kelp which are breeding grounds for small fish. The Port Townsend paper has more info if you are interested, [...]
OLYMPIA – With a strong run of fall chinook salmon returning to the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery, state fishery managers plan to transport up to 5,000 hatchery fish upriver and release them upriver above the last of three dams on the Cowlitz River. Starting this week, tanker trucks carrying adult chinook will make daily trips from [...]