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53 °F Forecast | Road Cams Friday, January 28, 2005 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 Menu Guide How To Guide Wellness Connection Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Real Estate Guide Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Wedding Guide Passport to the Rogue Valley EXTRA Newspaper in Education Personals Movie Times TV Times E The People Volunteer Opportunities Moving to Southern Oregon? 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 November 4, 2004 Cole Rivers Hatchery has strong sales of excess salmon By MARK FREEMAN Mail Tribune High bid prices from a Washington seafood wholesaler helped Cole Rivers Hatchery earn more than $87,000 for the sale of excess Rogue River spring chinook salmon carcasses. American Canadian Seafood in Bellingham, Wash., bid $11.10 per male spring chinook and $14.10 for females provided by the hatchery. Though the agency sold only 6,959 fish, it netted $87,205.20. Last year, the hatchery sold American Canadian 330 more fish than this year, but the $3.05 price per fish generated $22,459.05. State-run hatcheries like Cole Rivers typically sell excess salmon to food processors that bid for them. Cole Rivers first keeps enough adults to fulfill its spawning needs, and early-run fish are recycled Proceeds from these sales goes into the so-called "Carcass Fund" that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife uses to pay for improvements at ODFW-run hatcheries, Cole Rivers Manager Randy Robart says. Advertisement The first full fishing season in a decade for wild coho salmon at Siltcoos Lake could close soon because anglers are eating up the special fishery’s 600-salmon quota. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says creel checking at both Siltcoos and Tahkenitch lakes — the only lakes where threatened wild coastal coho can be caught and kept by anglers — shows that half of the Siltcoos quota had been caught by Sunday. Fishing for wild coastal coho has been slower at Tahkenitch Lake, where the quota is 400 adults. Both lakes are near Florence. They sport what ODFW biologists say are two of the healthiest runs of wild coho on the Oregon coast, where they are listed as a threatened species. The two fisheries have separate quotas so, if the Siltcoos fishery is shut down, angling can still continue at Tahkenitch until the quota is met or when the season ends Dec. 31. The fishery opened Dec. 11 last year and lasted 20 days. The ODFW and NOAA-Fisheries crafted these rare seasons under a little-used provision of the Endangered Species Act. State fishery managers hope to use these fisheries as a template for creating future angling seasons on threatened coho where harvest will not harm returns. Reach reporter Mark Freeman at 776-4470, or e-mail [email protected] Mail Tribune Home Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life Opinion - Politics | AP News | Archives | Site Map E Southern Oregon | Classified Copyright © 1997-2005 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 Student Loan Consolidation Conference Calls - $50/Month Home Security Systems Trunks, Footlocker, Trunk, Footlockers