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63 °F Forecast | Road Cams Sunday, September 12, 2004 Today's News | Classifieds | Autos | Homes | Jobs | Tempo | Health | Community | Home Delivery SECTIONS Home Page Local News Sports Business Obituaries Life Opinion - Politics Tempo AP News Weather Classified Archives Site Map SPECIAL SECTIONS Since We Asked Outdoor Journal Prime Times Wellness Connection Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Wedding Guide Rogue Valley's Finest EXTRA Newspaper in Education Personals Movie Times TV Times E The People MARKETPLACE Find a Car Find a Home Find a Job Classifieds Place an ad eSouthernOregon Automotive Communities Entertainment Publications Recreation Calendar CUSTOMER SERVICE Frequent Questions Advertising Information Home Delivery Employment Contact Us Media Kit Network Affiliate Oregon Road Conditions & Cams Email Story to a Friend April 19, 2004 Some fish escape the clipping procedure Are all the salmon and steelhead marked before they are released into the Rogue River from Cole Rivers Hatchery? —Matt M., Medford The vast majority of the more than 2 million salmon and steelhead released annually from Cole Rivers Hatchery into the Rogue have their adipose fins clipped to show they are hatchery fish. But not all do, says David Pease, the hatchery’s assistant manager. Of the approximately 1.62 million spring chinook released annually, about 3 percent are unmarked but have a coded-wire tag embedded in their snouts as part of an on-going research project on hook-and-release mortality on wild chinook, Pease says. For the same reason, 25,000 of the 200,000 coho salmon released from the hatchery have coded-wire tags and no clipped fins, Pease says. The goal is to fin-clip all the summer steelhead and winter steelhead, but a small percentage of them somehow miss the automated fin-clipping machine, Pease says. But very few of these so-called "escapees" are thought to hit the Rogue. Send questions to "Since You Asked," Mail Tribune Newsroom, P.O. Box 1108, Medford, OR 97501; by fax to 541-776-4376; or by e-mail to [email protected] . We’re sorry, but the volume of questions received prevents us from answering all of them. Mail Tribune Home Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life Opinion - Politics | AP News | Archives | Site Map E Southern Oregon | Classified Copyright © 1997-2004 Mail Tribune. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions Website Feedback ADVERTISERS A D V E R T I S E R S SPECIAL SECTIONS Auto Finder Job Finder Home Finder Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Tempo Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Since We Asked Outdoor Journal Moving to Southern Oregon? Volunteer Opportunities