First Chinook salmon swims past site of former Iron Gate dam
In a historical milestone, the first chinook salmon swam past the former Iron Gate dam site on the Klamath river in over 100 years. Nonprofit, state, and federal scientists collaborated to study the movement of fish around the former dam site. On the night of October 3, just past 10 p.m., a sonar camera used ultra sonic waves to detect a fish swimming upstream. Biologists with the nonprofit California Trout say their sonar camera caught what was “almost certainly” a chinook salmon.
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