Upgrades improve conditions for hatchery fish - Northwest Treaty Tribes

Upgrades improve conditions for hatchery fish - Northwest Treaty Tribes

Upgrades to the Puyallup Tribe of Indians’ Clarks Creek Hatchery will boost the tribe’s mission to raise and protect salmon. A grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and additional funding from the state funded the upgrades. With the improvements, automatic crowders will lift salmon out of the ponds onto sorting tables, limiting the number of times staffers have to handle the fish. A new abatement pond that drains through the bottom will be mor…