Green Acre Radio - The Decline of Steelhead
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Conservation, Environment, green acre radio, wild steelhead

In rivers throughout the Northwest, from the mighty Columbia to Seattle’s gritty Green River, wild steelhead populations are desperately hanging on. Listed as threatened, even hatchery efforts to increase their numbers are failing. Habitat loss, dams, and warming waters caused by climate change, appear to be sealing their fate. Green Acre Radio visits the Soos Creek Hatchery on the Green River and talks with wild steelhead advocates including veteran fisheries biologist, Don Chapman, who’s been monitoring the situation for 50 years.

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