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University of Idaho zoologist James J. Nagler processes samples
from chinook salmon carcasses along the shoreline of the Columbia
River’s Hanford Reach. Nagler clipped a piece of fin
from each carcass for DNA analysis. He took samples in November
1999 and again this fall.
  
James J. Nagler, left, a University of Idaho zoologist, and
Kurt Hubbard, a Pacific States Marine Fisheries Council scientific
technician, search the shoreline of the Columbia Riveršs Hanford
Reach for spawned-out salmon carcasses. Hubbard is part of
a crew that monitors chinook spawning in the reach, the stronghold
of wild fall chinook in the Columbia above Bonneville Dam.
Jay McCue pilots a jetboat along the Columbia River’s
Hanford Reach as part of a Pacific States Marine Fisheries
Council survey of spawning fall chinook salmon there. With
him on the boat are Kurt Hubbard of the PSFMC and James J.
Nagler, a University of Idaho zoologist.
 
Photos by University of Idaho/Bill Loftus
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