Lower Granite Dam Fish Counts Salmon

2020 steelhead count from july 1 to december 31 2020 to view winter passage at bonneville dam go to.

Lower granite dam fish counts salmon.

Well wait no longer i have some information to share with you. The corps of engineers provides for counting of adult salmon lamprey shad sturgeon and bull trout migrating through corps owned hydro electric facilities. Because more of the fish are successfully making this migration the harvest share for the rapid river return is currently 617 adult chinook and 197 adult salmon for the hells canyon fishery. Jacks are not included in the count.

We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us. Current counts can be viewed at. Total to date in 2020. Total to date in 2019.

2020 adult chinook salmon count from august 1 to december 15 2020 dam. Federal agencies required a minimum criteria of 96 percent of spring migrating and 93 percent of summer migrating juvenile salmon had to survive passage over lower granite dam located in. I know many people plan their time off to steelhead fish in idaho and have been eagerly waiting to hear what idaho s steelhead run is going to be like this year. Right now we are estimating that 83 of these salmon are successfully making their journey from bonneville dam to lower granite dam.

Counts include both hatchery and wild origin adults. Corps of engineers fish reporting site dam date of count daily count total to date in 2020 total to date in 2019 5 year average total count to date bonneville oct 1 446 104 286 66 091 132 844 lower granite oct 1 1 623 28 838 12 500 33 485 counts include wild and hatchery origin fish. Fish trapping season is underway and our crew is working hard with other agencies at lower granite dam to collect information on adult and juvenile salmon and steelhead. I typically like to wait until around mid august before i give my.

Idaho s steelhead update august 21 2020 by joe dupont joe dupont hi everybody. On average around 74 of the fish make this migration. 5 year average total count to date. Due to changes in how agencies share fish count data to the public online critfc no longer displays them on our website.