{"id":2767,"date":"2024-10-20T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T21:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2024-10-20T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T21:40:21","slug":"straying-from-the-stream-investigating-the-impacts-of-spring-chinook-salmon-hatchery-fish-on-wild-origin-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/2024\/10\/20\/straying-from-the-stream-investigating-the-impacts-of-spring-chinook-salmon-hatchery-fish-on-wild-origin-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Straying from the stream: investigating the impacts of spring Chinook salmon hatchery fish on wild, origin fish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dams, climate change, habitat loss, predation, anglers. Wild salmon must contend with all of these challenges during some point in their lifetimes. But an additional challenge may be having a negative impact on wild salmon that we don\u2019t yet quite understand: hatchery salmon. The main purpose behind rearing and releasing hatchery salmon into the wild is to increase the number of fish available for anglers (both recreational and commercial) to catch since wild salmon populations are too low in many areas to yield sustainable catches. However, when hatchery fish are released into the wild, some individuals stray. The term straying describes when hatchery fish go where they are not supposed to go. While some degree of straying can be positive because it helps maintain or increase genetic diversity within wild populations, too many hatchery strays could lead to problems for wild salmon. Investigating the impacts of hatchery salmon on wild salmon is no easy feat, and it\u2019s not made easier when you\u2019re trying to do it in possibly one of the most remote and wild places in Oregon\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that\u2019s exactly what our guest this week is doing! Emily Treadway is a first year Master\u2019s student advised by Dr. Seth White in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at OSU. On top of being a graduate student, Emily is also an employee at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife working within the East Region Fish Research Office. By wearing these two hats and through support from the Lower Snake River Compensation Plan, Emily\u2019s Master\u2019s research aims to do three things: (1) establish baselines for the Wenaha River, (2) determine how a remote region like the Wenaha can be monitored cost-effectively into the future, and (3) hopefully implement certain mitigation efforts or designs that will help support healthy wild salmon populations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you want to hear more about Emily\u2019s research, which involves kayaking on the Wenaha, scouting for river hazards, hiking into remote regions with huge solar panel-powered stationary antennas, then tune in to our live show with Emily this Sunday (October 20th<\/sup>) at 7 pm PST on KBVR 88.7 FM<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you miss the show, you can check out the interview wherever you get your podcasts, including on our KBVR page<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, or anywhere else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dams, climate change, habitat loss, predation, anglers. Wild salmon must contend with all of these challenges during some point in their lifetimes. But an additional challenge may be having a negative impact on wild salmon that we don\u2019t yet quite understand: hatchery salmon. The main purpose behind rearing and releasing hatchery salmon into the wild […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109824,1024799],"tags":[1305722,140586,1305719,309,1305723,1305721,1305663,155,523,1305718,1305720],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-agricultural-sciences","category-fisheries-wildlife","tag-chinook","tag-conservation","tag-emily-treadway","tag-fisheries","tag-grande-ronde-watershed","tag-hatchery","tag-odfw","tag-oregon-state-university","tag-research","tag-salmon","tag-wenaha-river"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}