OT: Looks like it is coming down

ericvs · Since 05 Jul 2008 133 Posts Stoked

http://www.teamdagger.com/profiles/blogs/its-official-condit-dam-on-the

Youkai · Since 08 Feb 2010 553 Posts Beaverton Addicted

Question: Will the salmon and steelhead actually go up that river? My understanding is that they will go where they were born to spawn. I'm not sure how long a salmon or steelhead lives but I'm guessing any that were born above the damn are long dead by now. So will new fish go up the river to spawn if they weren't born there?

beech · Since 21 Aug 2010 485 Posts Longview, WA Obsessed

they will go up. some go back to their native streams and some will wander into other streams. Mixes it up a little... variety, you know!

moondog · Wed Jun 15, 11 4:00 pm

The fisheries will be releasing juvenile salmon way above the dam, so when they return in 5-7 years they will smell their way back home to spawn.

pdxmonkeyboy · Wed Jun 15, 11 4:28 pm

There are already in the lower part of the stream. They will absolutely return in force to the upper reaches where the good spawning habitat will be. Super stoked to see this happen!!!

BTW, true salmon return to their native streams but there is also a small percentage of "drift" where the fish just go some where else. Which makes sense from an evolutionary strategy.

Nak · Wed Jun 15, 11 4:43 pm

kenja · Since 19 Jun 2008 179 Posts Stoked

I've caught quite a few steelhead on the White Salmon and have never caught a wild one. They are going to stop stocking steelhead from what I hear in hopes that the wild fish will come back. I think it will be pretty dismal fishing for several years at best. Long term it will be a good thing, though.

I've heard that the current salmon runs on the Columbia are at about 6% of what they were before the dams went in.

HRnico · Since 22 Mar 2008 262 Posts Da Hood Obsessed

I think we should shut off the internet, it uses alot of electricity won't need the dams.

forrest · Thu Jun 16, 11 9:54 am

It actually doesn't use very much electricity when compared to major appliances and HVAC.

Hein · Since 08 Mar 2005 1314 Posts Possessed

Does anyone know why the Dams on the Columbia were built?

mschulz · Since 29 May 2007 530 Posts Reno, NV Addicted

Hein · Since 08 Mar 2005 1314 Posts Possessed

Just meant to make you think. And perhaps consider some alternatives had the dams not been built.

forrest · Thu Jun 16, 11 11:54 am

So we could win WWII!

blowhard · Since 26 Dec 2005 2027 Posts Windward

get rid of those stinky salmon?

or was it aluminum?

rinse water for hanford?

because it was there?

huh

scottman · Since 08 Jun 2007 150 Posts hillsboro Stoked