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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LukeLuke" data-source="post: 164800" data-attributes="member: 534"><p><strong>Thousands Of Salmon Will Be Released Into Lake Sakakawea</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #444444"><strong>By:</strong> Jim Olson </span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444"></span><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Over four-hundred thousand fish are swimming at the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">(LAUREN KALBERER/KX NEWS)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Those fish are chinook salmon and they are preparing to move into Lake Sakakawea.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Alexus Arthur is live in Minot to tell us more.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The salmon grow to four or five inches when they are ready to be released into the lake.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">When they are released, they will spend the next couple of years traveling downstream on the Missouri River.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Once the salmon are ready to spawn they will travel upstream and return to Lake Sakakawea where they imprinted.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Typically, male return after a year and female come back after two or three years, but once they spawn they will pass away.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Then the cycle of life continues.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The hatchery will collect the eggs, create new salmon, and release them the next year.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"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.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Chinook salmon enjoy the cold water and can stay comfortable to about 50 degrees.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The four hundred thousand salmon will be released this May into the Lake Sakakawea side</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #3A4145"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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