Direct Enhancement
Summer low flows and high temperatures can create deadly conditions for juvenile salmonids. MSG provides an alternative environment for the fish while the natural river habitat improves. All projects operate intermittently depending on permits.
A percentage of over-summering juvenile coho are diverted into rearing ponds for the summer, and sometimes winter, months to protect them from low flows and poor overwintering habitat.
Fisheries biologists divert a percentage of outmigrating Chinook salmon into rearing ponds for the summer to increase survival and protect them from poor river conditions.
