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  • September

    Biologist Brian Wooley releases fish into pipes that connect to transfer pools where they are then loaded into trucks and safely released back into the wild.

    Fall Creek Adult Fish Facility – Improving eFishencies

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report a record return of more than 800 spring chinook salmon this year at Fall Creek Dam.

  • August

    New fish facility

    Fall Creek Dam getting new fish facility

    PORTLAND, Ore. – Construction crews are rebuilding Fall Creek Dam’s Adult Fish Collection Facility southeast of Eugene, Oregon. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is doing this to meet requirements of the 2008 Willamette Project biological opinions to support the safe collection and transport of wild spring Chinook and winter steelhead upstream of the dam.

  • September

    More than 350,000 Chinook salmon have passed Bonneville Dam during the 2013 fall migration. A record-breaking 68,000 Chinook were counted on Sept. 9, 2013. The highest ever count before this was just more than 47,000 on Sept. 11, 2003.

    Historic numbers of Chinook salmon passing Bonneville Dam

    Record-smashing numbers of Chinook salmon are heading up the Columbia River and may continue for several more days, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said today.