{"id":795,"date":"2019-04-11T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/?p=795"},"modified":"2019-04-11T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:04:32","slug":"hatchery-to-free-salmon-in-survival-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/hatchery-to-free-salmon-in-survival-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatchery to free salmon in survival experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: A photo that originally accompanied this story was not a picture of salmon fry. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provided incorrect caption information with the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Will hatchery-raised salmon have a better chance of surviving their journey to the Pacific Ocean and back if they get a 75-mile head start?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the question a three-year study hopes to answer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and four partner organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The plan Saturday is to release 180,000 salmon fry into the Sacramento River 75 miles downriver from the Coleman National Fish Hatchery. A tanker truck will take the young salmon from the hatchery outside Anderson to Scotty&#8217;s Landing in Chico for the fish&#8217;s intended journey to the ocean under the Golden Gate Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we can boost survival of the fish by even 20% to 40%, it&#8217;s a great step forward to add fish to the fishery,&#8221; said John McManus, president of the Golden Gate Salmon Association.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redding.com\/story\/news\/2019\/04\/10\/coleman-hatchery-free-180-000-tiny-salmon-survival-experiment\/3427926002\/\">Hatchery will free thousands of tiny salmon in survival experiment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-796 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/TyixCLdf-Untitledq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winter-run juvenile Chinook salmon being prepared for release at Coleman National Fish Hatchery in March 2018. (Photo: Steve Martarano\/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: A photo that originally accompanied this story was not a picture of salmon fry. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provided incorrect caption information with the picture. Will hatchery-raised salmon have a better chance of surviving their journey to the Pacific Ocean and back if they get a 75-mile head start? That&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}