Sockeye Return, After More Than 100 years

<a href="http://yakamafish-nsn.gov/restore/projects/yakima-basin-sockeye-reintroduction" target="_blank">Project page of the Yakima Basin sockeye reintroduction effort</a>

Image on the right shows Cle Elum Lake and fish passage. Image from Yakama Nation.

Construction of the Prosser and Roza dams on the Yakima River, Washington blocked the passage of migrating adult sockeye salmon on their way to spawn in their natal streams. Cover image of sockeye from WDFW.

By 2013, the reintroduction of thousands of adult sockeye into Cle Elum Lake produced juveniles that migrated to the ocean and returned as adults to spawn. (Image by Roger Tabor, USFWS)

The Yakama Nation, in partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, has worked to restore fish passage.&nbsp;The first adult sockeye were released into Cle Elum Lake by the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation in 2009.

<a href="https://ynf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=d0ba4a5d2c3c4fc4babcd51b4d319080" target="_blank">Yakima Basin Sockeye Reintroduction</a>

<a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/jul/08/restoring-the-fish-run/" target="_blank">Yakamas release sockeye into Cle Elum Lake</a>

<a href="https://www.nwcouncil.org/news/yakama-nation-s-innovative-techniques-rebuild-salmon-runs-yakima-river-basin" target="_blank">Yakama Nation's Innovative Techniques to Rebuild Salmon Runs in the Yakima River Basin</a>

Within a few years, sockeye were eliminated from the upper Yakima River  (image of the 2 sockeye is from USFWS).

Sockeye reintroduced into the Yakima River 