NORTH COAST PROJECT LOG: '05-2
March 28, 2005
Sampling at TU fish trap on Lower Austin Creek 		 

Coho salmon at the Lower Austin Creek Migration Improvement Project. Clipped adipose fin identifies fish as one released in Fall 2004, as part of the Russian River Coho Recovery Project's Captive Coho Broodstock program.

An important tributary of the lower Russian, Austin Creek is located about 4 miles from the ocean. MORE...

For additional information, vist http://www.tucalifornia.org/policytrove1.htm
http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/cohosalmon
BELOW: Coho salmon (left) and steelhead trout (right) captured and then released at the Lower Austin Creek Migration Improvement Project. Note the large, distinctive eye of the coho.