With the derby kicking off this week, we wanted to take a minute to say thank you to all of our sponsors for this year's event. These are the sponsors who make it possible for us to keep doing what we do, supporting fish restoration, watershed projects, and getting kids out on the water learning about our natural resources. 34 years now. Still going strong because of support like this. All of it stays local. All of it goes toward our fisheries and our kids.
It's time to check on your fish identification knowledge when you are looking at the Derby’s live-streaming video.
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100-year record low flows combined with very high summertime water temperatures. Only wild summer steelhead are present in the river now since hatchery program was eliminated. Yet the same groups that say they want to protect this wild fish population are continuing to increase the prespawning mortality rate by hooking and releasing these fish throughout the day, every day.
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Yes, the current North Umpqua River flow is at a historic lowest level. No significant rainfall is predicted for the next several days.
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Umpqua Fishery Enhancement Derby teams up with Powerhouse Electric to help the North Umpqua River Spring Chinook program at Rock Creek Hatchery as part of the rebuild hatchery project.
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March was another great month for fish returning to the North Umpqua River. Not only did 4,000 winter steelhead pass upstream to add to the current total count of over 10,000, a few early spring chinook migrated through the fish ladder. The first one was a beautiful large fish and arrived on March 24th. This springer will find a quiet, deep pool in the river to hold during its no-food diet until September when it will spawn in a nearby gravel riffle.
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