The Army Corps of Engineers smolt transportation program for 1999 began
this month, with river operators once again using a combination of spill
and collection/transport to move juvenile salmon and steelhead through
the Columbia/Snake hydropower system.
If 1999 resembles 1998 operations, high percentages of fish will make
the trip by barge or truck.
An April 27 staff memo by the Fish Passage Center indicates that 66-81
percent of the wild yearling (spring/summer) chinook originating …
