Chena River Chinook Salmon Study

Here’s some salmon video footage superior to what was posted a few months ago. These clips were shot in the last few weeks.
First, some adult Chinook resting on their way up the North Fork of the Chena:
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Juvenile Chinook feeding:
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Three to six inches of rain fell in the Fairbanks area last week, the highest amount many places have received since the great flood of 1967 (which was much more severe).  It came with little warning, and we suffered some equipment losses, but we also decided to take advantage of the opportunity to see how [...]

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It’s been a while since the last update, because we’re all out on the river all the time, or in lab processing samples and tinkering with equipment.  We’ve all had our setbacks but the project is generally going well.
From July 24th to the 27th, I floated 50 miles of the Chena in a cataraft.  I [...]

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