‘Sweet Home’ for fish: Brand new transfer facility reduces human contact with salmon, steelhead

Sean C. Morgan

Winter steelhead are getting less personal touch as they negotiate their way past Foster Dam these days.

Once upon a time, fish headed upstream past Foster Dam swam into a basket. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials would jump into the basket and sort the fish by hand, wild fish into a truck headed upstream or hatchery fish downstream for fishermen.

A $14 million facility went online April 1, allowing fish…

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