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Research related to transportation of juvenile salmonids on the Columbia and Snake Rivers, 1997
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1998
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Description:The National Marine Fisheries Service began an estuarine release study in 1992 to assess whether survival of transported steelhead trout smolts released in the estuary would be greater than that oftransported smolts released further upstream at our established release site below Bonneville Dam. We completed the 3-year smolt marking phase ofthis study in spring 1994 and are now in the adult recovery phase. Complete adult returns for the 1992 smolt marking year were reported by Marsh et al. (1997), and those for the 1993 smolt marking year are reported here. We also recovered age-3-ocean steelhead from the third year of smolt marking in 1994. Adult returns for all 3 study years were much lower than expected, with total adult returns to Lower Granite Dam for the 1993 study year of only 99 fish from the Tongue Point release (0.16% ofthe juveniles released) and 130 fish from the Skamania Light release (0.19% ofthe juveniles released). Results for the 1993 study year did not show a statistical difference in return rates between the Tongue Point and Skamania Light releases. For the 1994 study year, preliminary adult returns to Lower Granite Dam totaled 120 (0.20% ofthe juveniles released) fish for the Tongue Point release and 49 (0.07% ofthe juveniles released) fish for the Skamania Light release. When adult returns are complete, these low adult return rates may preclude any meaningful statistical analysis.
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