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LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — More than 100 spring chinook salmon not needed at a northern Idaho hatchery have been released into a creek to spawn naturally.
The Lewiston Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2wbcdXy) that workers with Dworshak National Fish Hatchery released the fish Wednesday into Lolo Creek.
Fisheries biologist Tom Tighe says extra spring chinook returned to the hatchery this year, so the fish are surplus.
He says workers released the fish in an area with proven spawning gravel just upstream from where Lolo Creek joins the Clearwater River.
Experts say some of the fish might successfully spawn, and all the fish when they die will add nutrients to the food chain.
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