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Thousands Of Salmon Will Be Released Into Lake Sakakawea
By: Jim Olson
Over four-hundred thousand fish are swimming at the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery.
(LAUREN KALBERER/KX NEWS)
Those fish are chinook salmon and they are preparing to move into Lake Sakakawea.
Alexus Arthur is live in Minot to tell us more.
The salmon grow to four or five inches when they are ready to be released into the lake.
When they are released, they will spend the next couple of years traveling downstream on the Missouri River.
Once the salmon are ready to spawn they will travel upstream and return to Lake Sakakawea where they imprinted.
Typically, male return after a year and female come back after two or three years, but once they spawn they will pass away.
Then the cycle of life continues.
The hatchery will collect the eggs, create new salmon, and release them the next year.
"In this case, this year and actually the last couple of years, the chinook population in Sakakawea have been phenomenal and so we have a great population of bred stock there which means we have lots of eggs." said Rob Holm.
Chinook salmon enjoy the cold water and can stay comfortable to about 50 degrees.
The four hundred thousand salmon will be released this May into the Lake Sakakawea side
By: Jim Olson
Over four-hundred thousand fish are swimming at the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery.
(LAUREN KALBERER/KX NEWS)
Those fish are chinook salmon and they are preparing to move into Lake Sakakawea.
Alexus Arthur is live in Minot to tell us more.
The salmon grow to four or five inches when they are ready to be released into the lake.
When they are released, they will spend the next couple of years traveling downstream on the Missouri River.
Once the salmon are ready to spawn they will travel upstream and return to Lake Sakakawea where they imprinted.
Typically, male return after a year and female come back after two or three years, but once they spawn they will pass away.
Then the cycle of life continues.
The hatchery will collect the eggs, create new salmon, and release them the next year.
"In this case, this year and actually the last couple of years, the chinook population in Sakakawea have been phenomenal and so we have a great population of bred stock there which means we have lots of eggs." said Rob Holm.
Chinook salmon enjoy the cold water and can stay comfortable to about 50 degrees.
The four hundred thousand salmon will be released this May into the Lake Sakakawea side