August 20, 2021, by admin

This week Sitka Sound Science Center received a special delivery of salmon frye that were delivered by an amphibous airplane . SSSC has accepted chinook salmon frye from NOAA’s Little Port Walter research facility. NOAA is shutting down its chinook research program at the East Baranof facility which means that it is drastically cutting down contributions to the common property fishery that trollers have been fishing for several decades.  Sitka Sound Science Center agreed to take and rear 42,000 Unuk chinook and the Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association will take and provide care for 72,000 Keta chinook to prevent the fish from being euthanized. The chinook, which stay in fresh water for several years, will provide an excellent teaching opportunity to our aquaculture training here at SSSC and eventually be released at Deep Inlet.