Steelhead Summit

Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010
Time: 9:30 AM – 3:00PM
Location: Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, WA

Hosted by the Steelhead Summit Alliance in conjunction with the Wild Steelhead Coalition and the Wild Fish Conservancy.

The Steelhead Summit is a regular gathering of concerned anglers and other citizens meeting to discuss current issues facing steelhead throughout their range in the Pacific NW and California. Jointly these steelhead advocates make up the Steelhead Summit Alliance which works together for the protection and restoration of native, wild steelhead.

This Summit is an emergency meeting designed to investigate the IHNv disease that has invaded our steelhead fisheries, most recently on the Olympic Peninsula. This disease has been found in both the Bogachiel Hatchery and the wild stocks in the Sol Duc River. The disease is moving throughout our rivers and estuaries and has the fast potential of not only significantly damaging our important coastal wild fish, but also spreading into Puget Sound.

We are hosting a daylong session to meet with scientists who will educate us on this issue, including Gael Kurath (Western Fisheries Research Center), John Kerwin (WDFW), Ray Brunson (US Fish & Wildlife Service) and Jim Winton (Western Fisheries Research Center). Jim has offered to be our host and we will meet at his lab in Seattle. The address is: 6505 NE 65th St. and is at the junction of Sandpoint Way near the University District.

For more information contact Marianne Mitchell, Steelhead Summit Alliance Chair, heritagesea@aol.com, (206) 669-6263.


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