POTBR, Spokane Fishery’s

​Spokane Tribal Hatchery 

Day 2

Being a light sleeper has its ups and downs. Being home I can be more aware at night. When I sleeping in a tent though I can hear everything so I was waking up every hour our first night staying in Wellpinit! Although sleeping in the rain was so peaceful, the rain and thunder kept waking me up so I’m the morning I was pretty tired. For breakfast we had cereal, I was satisfied because we have my favorite cereal toasted oaks!

For our in field experience today we went to Spokane Tribal Hatchery!, got greeted by the Program manager, Tim Peone.. Tim graduated in Biology at EWU with a bachelors degree, he been working been working with fishers since they started the hatchery back in 1980’s.  


 

Tim shared with us that Spokane river hold many different species of fish like Pike, Walleye, rainbow trout and steelhead. Red band trout is a natural species trout that migrates all the way to the ocean and comes back to the Spokane river as steelhead!

 The hatchery works with a lot of rainbow trout and local creeks around the area. The fishers department works towards the salmon recovery and water quality. They’re goal is to bring back salmon to Spokane river, and I respect that a lot. Tim shared with us his personal opinion about how to work towards their salmon goal and he stated “it all starts with clean water!”

The hatchery employees Casey Flanagan, water and fish manager and Calvin Fisher, water resource specialist, took us out to Little Shimmakan creek to help do a Fish population survey. The main goal was to see if the red band trout was back in the creek, to find out there wasn’t any.. we Work in 100 meters of stream, shocking and catching all the fish we can. The Fish population assessment was very exciting because we caught hundreds of fish and even caught a huge leach in the boundary net. 

After a long hot fish population assessment everyone seemed tired out from the whole day and we went back to camp to have dinner and rest up. 


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