What is a Redd?

A female salmon uses her tail to dig a nest in the gravel. After she deposits her eggs the male fertilizes them. The female covers the fertilized eggs with gravel from upstream and the resulting nest is called a redd.
 

Fall 2008
In This Issue:  

• Volunteers Plant Trees for Salmon and Eagles
• From the President
• Welcome New Staff
• Student Service Learning
• Morgan Creek Fish Passage Repair
• Finney Creek
  

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Fish Facts The Skagit River watershed is home to one of the largest wintering populations of bald eagles in the lower 48 United States.