‘Severe Impacts On Salmon’ Anticipated From Record-setting Washington Floods: WDFW
Record flooding across parts of Western Washington dealt some WDFW facilities a blow, with significant damage reported to a fishway and a pair of boat ramps, while some coho smolts at a hatchery self-released early after their rearing pond was overtopped by high water, but the big concern is for how it affected wild salmon spawning beds.