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Chinook salmon. The Skagit provides spawning habitat for salmon.It is the only large river system in Washington that contains healthy populations of all five native salmon species – chinook, coho, chum, pink, and sockeye – and two species of trout: steelhead and coastal cutthroat.
Salmon and trout. Sockeye salmon; Chinook salmon; Chum salmon; Pink salmon; ... An Educator's Guide to the Skagit River Watershed". North Cascade Institute: 49–53.
Illabot Creek also supports the highest density of chum and pink salmon in the Skagit River watershed. [2] The creek area also provides habitat for wintering bald eagles that are attracted to the salmon, [3] part of one of the largest concentration of wintering bald eagles in the continental United States. [2]
Duvall said the Skagit River, once a hub for eagle sightings, limited its chum salmon population through a dam. The resulting limited salmon population has, in turn, driven eagles from the Skagit ...
Baker River at Concrete. Baker River sockeye are the only known sustaining population of Sockeye salmon in the Skagit River drainage basin. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has determined the Baker River sockeye to be genetically distinct from other sockeye salmon. As of 1992 the condition of the population was listed as ...
The tribe operates a hatchery on the Skagit River, which facilitated the return of coho salmon to the reservation in 2008 for the first time in 50 years. In 2009, the Upper Skagit tribe received a $105,000 grant to restore 140 acres of salmon habitat near the reservation.
Green River; Lacamas Creek; Salmon Creek; Tilton River; Cispus River. Iron Creek; East Canyon Creek; Ohanapecosh River; Kalama River; Lewis River. East Fork Lewis River; Canyon Creek; Muddy River; Gee Creek; Lake River. Salmon Creek. Woodin Creek / Weaver Creak; Burnt Bridge Creek; Washougal River. Lacamas Creek; Wind River; Little White Salmon ...
In November and December 2017, some of the salmon were captured from the Skagit River by members of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, [16] who were still finding them in April 2018, up to eight months after the incident. [17]