Columbia River Research Laboratory (CRRL)
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The Columbia River Research Laboratory (CRRL) was established in 1978, tracing its roots to the previous Reservoir Program of the Fish and Wildlife Service, in the Columbia River Gorge east of Portland. The CRRL, the Center’s largest field station, carries out research throughout the American West, including Puget Sound, the Columbia River Basin, the Klamath River Basin, and the Sacramento Bay Delta.
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For many years, scientists at CRRL have collaborated with tribal entities around the Northwest in the collection of various types of fisheries data.
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Western Fisheries Science News, February 2019 | Issue 7.2
Identifying Habitat Characteristics for Successful White Sturgeon Recruitment in the Columbia River Basin
Western Fisheries Science News, June 2018 | Issue 6.6
Evaluating Innovative Fish Passage Alternatives to Support Upstream Sockeye Salmon Passage
Western Fisheries Science News, May 2018 | Issue 6.5
WFRC Science Takes to the Skies with Unmanned Aerial Systems
Publications
Review of trap-and-haul for managing Pacific salmonids (Oncorhynchus spp.) in impounded river systems
High-head dams are migration barriers for Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. in many river systems and recovery measures for impacted stocks are limited. Trap-and-haul has been widely used in attempts to facilitate recovery but information from existing programs has not been synthesized to inform improvements to aid recovery of salmonids...
Kock, Tobias; Ferguson, John W.; Keefer, Matthew L.; Schreck , Carl B.
Fish assemblages in eelgrass beds of Bellingham Bay, Washington, Northern Puget Sound, 2019
Puget Sound is a critical part of the Pacific Northwest, both culturally and economically. Eelgrass beds are an important feature of Puget Sound and are known to influence fish assemblages. As part of a larger site-characterization effort, and to gain a better understanding of the fish assemblages in Bellingham Bay, Washington, four eelgrass beds...
Andrews, Morgan I.; Liedtke, Theresa L. Impact of smallmouth bass predation on subyearling fall Chinook salmon over a broad river continuum
Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) predation on subyearling fall Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) was examined in the Snake River (USA) to identify seasonal and habitat-related changes in bass diets, and associated subyearling consumption and loss in various riverine and impounded reaches. Smallmouth bass diets reflected opportunistic...
Tiffan, Kenneth; Erhardt, John M; Hemingway, Rulon J.; Bickford, Brad; Rhodes, Tobyn