Apr72015
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salmon productionA new study by stream ecosystem scientists concludes that the average cost to produce a juvenile coho salmon through habitat restoration in British Columbia is about the same as producing a hatchery salmon. But when the variables turn to “value,” stream enhancement has a healthier outlook.

“With costs being equal, the study concludes that wild juveniles from restored habitat ‘arguably have higher value than hatchery-reared fishes, because they survive better in the wild and have higher reproductive success.’ The newly restored habitats also offer shelter and rearing habitat for other species in the Chilliwack River, including steelhead, bull trout and pink salmon,” the study says.

The study explored the effectiveness of restoring habitat and increasing smolt production, along with the costs of the projects, in a string of off-channel improvements in the upper Chilliwack River in British Columbia and Washington State. About $14 billion to $15 billion has been spent since 1990 on freshwater habitat restoration projects in the U.S. alone, but this is one of the few studies that weighs the cost-effectiveness of such projects.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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