Texas Fish Report

Mike Baxter from the Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project has some good news on the salmon front. MBSTP once again has installed net pens at the Santa Cruz Harbor to hold thousands of juvenile Chinook (King) Salmon. The hatchery will bring 180,000 fish to the pens, in three separate loads over the next month or so. Baxter explains "they will be transitioned from fresh to salt water and will be fed and released after a week. The idea is to bring these fish to Santa Cruz Harbor to help imprint the fish and help transition them from fresh to salt water." The technique works to increase the number of ocean Chinooks available for sport and commercial fishing. Proof of the viability of this ongoing project are the large schools of salmon seen late in the year, often by the hundreds inside the Santa Cruz Harbor.