The salmon can come back to Spokane by the thousands as they have done for thousands of years.
The three minute film, A Short Taxi Ride Home, shows how this can be done today.
The film Salmon Fishing At Wamapum Dam showst salmon fishing at Wamapum Dam on the Columbia River and what it takes to taxi the salmon from Chief Joseph Dam to Spokane.
Salmon's Dam View - From Pacific Ocean is a film of the Columbia River dams as the Salmon make their annual return home from the Pacific Ocean.
Below is a map of the 9 dams on the Columbia River that salmon swim beyond each year on their way home to Spokane. They swim 545 miles up the Columbia River to Chief Joseph Dam, where they can not find a way to go the remaining 100 plus miles to Spokane. A closer view of the Columbia River WA dams shows more details.
Both chinook and sockeye salmon can return to Spokane.
Here's what these and other related salmon look like. Here is how some salmon are identified. Millions of hatchery salmon are released each year in to the Columbia River. These salmon have their small dorsal fin clipped so they can be easily distinguished from the all too few remaining wild salmon - see drawing.
Salmon Back Home is an independent all volunteer effort for anyone interested in helping allow the salmon back to their home in Spokane. Your help can make all the difference in the world in bringing the salmon from Chief Joseph Dam to Spokane. Contact
If there is anyone that can catch - live - a few salmon, even one, at Chief Joseph and transport them back to Spokane in a tank of cool water to be released at the confluence of Latah and the Spokane river this can be filmed. Contact
Here are more films about the importance of salmon back home in Spokane.
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