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Washington State Indian Tribe Continues Work Restoring Salmon to River.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2002

By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 15--Biologists released the first two feisty red coho salmon Wednesday morning from a custom-built cage 41 miles upstream from the mouth of the Puyallup River.

The cage, actually a fish trap, was set up by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians to measure the success of its efforts to restore salmon to the river's upper reaches.

"It's one of ours!" biologist Peter Samarin exclaimed Wednesday after he netted the first one, its missing adipose fin indicating its origin.

The trap enables tribal fisheries workers to count fish passing through a 290-foot-long concrete fish ladder, which was built two years ago to bypass the Electron Dam.

"It...

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