More trout reach Eugene canoeway.Byline: INSIDE THE OUTDOORS By Mike Stahlberg The Register-Guard Bonus trout, and other news notes from the "hooks and bullets" beat: Eugene-area anglers are the beneficiaries of an outbreak of a contagious fish virus at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Butte Butte, city, United States Butte (by  t), city (1990 pop. 33,336), seat of Silver Bow co., SW Mont.; inc. 1879. It is a trade, ranching, and industrial center. Falls Hatchery hatcherya commercial establishment dedicated to the hatching of bird eggs to provide day old chicks and poults to the poultry industry. hatchery liquid the contents of unfertilized eggs. Used in petfood manufacture. near Medford. The ODFW ODFW Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife last week released an extra 3,000 hatchery rainbow trout rainbow trout Species (Oncorhynchus mykiss) of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) noted for spectacular leaps and hard fighting when hooked. It has been introduced from western North America to many other countries. into the canoe canal in Eugene's Alton Baker Park Alton Baker Park is located in Eugene, Oregon, United States, near Autzen Stadium. It features duck ponds, bicycle trails, and a dog park, and directly touches the Ferry Street Bridge. , and announced a similar number will be stocked there weekly through the third week of September. All told, about 20,000 fish ranging from 10 to 13 inches in length will be released. Because they were in a group that tested positive for the contagious fish virus INH INH abbr. isoniazid isoniazid (INH) Isotamine (CA), PMS Isoniazid (CA) Pharmacologic class: Isonicotinic acid hydrazide Therapeutic class: Antitubercular , the trout cannot be released in Rogue Basin streams as originally planned, due to the threat of spreading the virus. INH is already present in the Willamette River Willamette River River, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It flows north for 300 mi (485 km) into the Columbia River near Portland. Oregon's most populous cities are in its valley. The Fremont Bridge, a steel arch with a main span of 1,225 ft (373 m), crosses the river at Portland. , into which the canoeway empties. The Butte Falls fish are in good shape and are safe to eat, ODFW officials said. Alton Baker Park was selected as the release site because the canoeway is one of the few sites in Western Oregon This article is about the region of Western Oregon. For the University, see Western Oregon University. Western Oregon is a geographical term that is generally taken to apply to the portion of the state of Oregon that is west of the Cascade Range. where water temperatures are cool enough for releasing trout during August and September - and where anglers are allowed to harvest trout that have not been fin-clipped. The limit of five fish per day remains in effect. Don't get alarmed if you see people netting salmon at night near Mapleton. ODFW biologists and field crews are resuming work on a multi-year study to estimate fall chinook Chinook, indigenous people of North America Chinook (shĭn  k`, chĭ–), Native American tribe of the Penutian linguistic stock. spawner escapement in the
Siuslaw River The Siuslaw River (pronounced sigh YOU slaw) is a river, approximately 110 mi (177 km) long, along the Pacific coast of Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of approximately 4560 sq mi (11900 km²) in the Central Oregon Coast Range southwest of the Willamette .
One part of the study includes a "mark-and-recapture" effort to estimate spawner abundance. Field crews will be live-capturing and marking incoming chinook using entanglement nets. This work is done primarily at night when fish are more active, water temperatures have cooled, and activities do not interfere with salmon fishing. Tagging activities on the Siuslaw River generally take place Monday through Thursday nights near the Mapleton Public Docks. `Crews operate boats equipped with lighting for nighttime work and immediately remove any fish captured in the nets,' said Sandy Kennedy, ODFW project biologist and crew leader for the Siuslaw. Fish are held in live wells with circulating water while the crew gathers biological data. Fish are then marked by punching a small hole in the gill plate and are quickly returned to the river. The study will produce fall chinook escapement estimates and help meet the state's monitoring responsibilities under the U.S./Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty. Anyone interested in learning more about the project or in volunteering to assist in tagging activities is welcome to contact the crew at the public dock in Mapleton, Kennedy said. Sport anglers who fish for Pacific halibut are invited to help shape the 2007 season by participating in meetings next week in Newport and Astoria. The Astoria meeting will be Tuesday, Aug. 22 at the Holiday Inn Express, 204 West Marine Dr. The Newport session will be held Thursday, Aug. 24 in Room 30 of the Hatfield Marine Science Center, 2030 S.E. Marine Science Dr. Both meetings begin at 7 p.m. `At the meetings we will look at the allocation of Pacific halibut and the fishery structure such as the timing of the fisheries,' said Don Bodenmiller, sport halibut halibut: see flatfish. halibut Any of various flatfishes, especially the Atlantic and Pacific halibuts (genus Hippoglossus, family Pleuronectidae), both of which have eyes and colour on the right side. project leader for the ODFW. For details or to comment without attending a meeting, call Bodenmiller at (541) 867-4741. Last week's column regarding revised hunting regulations at Fern Ridge Wildlife Area needs clarification. The Fisher Butte Unit, which in prior years has been open to waterfowl hunting daily during the season through Nov. 1 and three days per week thereafter, will now be open daily during the season. The column failed to acknowledge that daily hunting had been allowed prior to Nov. 1. The column also said scheduling of the Western Oregon Fee Pheasant Hunt at Fern Ridge Wildlife Area had been juggled to provide a full month between the end of that hunt and the opening of waterfowl waterfowl, common term for members of the order Anseriformes, wild, aquatic, typically freshwater birds including ducks, geese, and screamers. In Great Britain the term is also used to designate species kept for ornamental purposes on private lakes or ponds, while in season. In fact, there are actually only five days between the end of the fee pheasant hunt and the start of duck season. The month-long break refers to the period between the end of the fee pheasant hunt and start of the reservation duck hunt in the East and West Coyote units. Mike Stahlberg can be reached at mstahlberg@guardnet.com. |
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