Steelhead Counts Lower Granite

A lot of work and research goes on at lower granite dam so we will be giving updates throughout the year to help you understand some of the work we are doing and what we are learning.

Steelhead counts lower granite. Fish trapping season is underway and our crew is working hard with other agencies at lower granite dam to collect information on adult and juvenile salmon and steelhead. Most of the steelhead that are bound for idaho pass bonneville dam between july 1 and october 31. Lower granite dam run counted from july 1 to december 31 fall and march 1 to june 30 spring. The jack chinook adult passage counts are the sum of hatchery spring hatchery summer wild spring and wild summer jack chinook as reported by wdfw and chelan pud.

All data are considered preliminary until completion of the final report. The 10 year average for daily steelhead counts over the same period ranges from. Prior to 1995 wild steelhead data was not published on a daily basis. We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us.

At lower granite dam on the snake river daily steelhead counts recently ranged from a low of 17 and a high of 38. 2020 steelhead count from july 1 to december 31 2020 to view winter passage at bonneville dam go to. Most of these fish pass lower granite dam in the fall however some over winter downstream of lower granite dam and continue their migration to idaho. Well wait no longer i have some information to share with you.

Steelhead creel estimates for the week of september 21 27 2020 snake river section locations anglers checked hours fished fish kept fish released total hours per fish caught hours per fish kept water temp water conditions snake river downstream from salmon river 01 181 1 005 19 28 47 21 53. Through tuesday 1 422 steelhead had been counted at lower granite dam on the snake river. Corps of engineers fish reporting site dam date of count daily count total to date in 2020 total to date in 2019 5 year average total count to date bonneville oct 1 446 104 286 66 091 132 844 lower granite oct 1 1 623 28 838 12 500 33 485 counts include wild and hatchery origin fish. In portland district annual fish passage reports fishladder counts are combined to get the counts for each dam bonneville the dalles john day mcnary ice harbor and lower monumental each have 2 fishladders.

Idaho s steelhead update august 21 2020 by joe dupont joe dupont hi everybody. Fish counts from each fishladder first 2 queries below go back to 1981. This year s count is among the lowest in the past four decades second only to the 2017 count of 32 237. I typically like to wait until around mid august before i give my.