{"id":151,"date":"2014-01-14T01:36:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T09:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/county.wsu.edu\/nrs\/beachwatchers\/Forms\/DispForm\/?ID=11"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:18:25","slug":"coho-spawner-surveys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/nrs\/beachnaturalists\/coho-spawner-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmon Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coho and Chum: Smolt and Spawning Surveys<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Partnering with North Olympic Salmon Coalition and Jefferson Conservation District<\/h3>\n\n\n<article class=\"wsu-card  wsu-card--style-horizontal-33 wsu-color-background--gray-5 wsu-border-top--color-crimson\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wsu-image-frame wsu-image--ratio-16-9\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/Fyke-netting_crop_IMG_0467-001-1024x890-1.jpg\"\r\n\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/Fyke-netting_crop_IMG_0467-001-1024x890-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/Fyke-netting_crop_IMG_0467-001-1024x890-1-396x344.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/Fyke-netting_crop_IMG_0467-001-1024x890-1-792x688.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/Fyke-netting_crop_IMG_0467-001-1024x890-1-768x668.jpg 768w\"\r\n\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\r\n\t\t\t\talt=\"Men using Fyke netting to fish. \"\r\n\t\t\t\tstyle=\"object-position: 50% 50%\"\r\n\t\t\t\t\/>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wsu-card__content\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"wsu-title \">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFyke Netting\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wsu-caption\">\r\n\t\t\tIn the spring, Beach Watcher volunteers help the North Olympic Salmon Coalition (NOSC) count young summer chum that feed in the productive waters of Discovery Bay estuaries and tidal channels. In March 2013, we used fyke nets (pictured here) to capture, measure, count and release the young smolt in Discovery Bay.<br>The water was cold, but it was so much fun!\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/article>\n\n<article class=\"wsu-card  wsu-card--style-horizontal-33 wsu-border-top--color-crimson wsu-color-background--gray-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wsu-image-frame wsu-image--ratio-16-9\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/ChimacumChumSurvey_Sep2013_Joe-Ionaca_CLowe_P1010363-1024x1022-1.jpg\"\r\n\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/ChimacumChumSurvey_Sep2013_Joe-Ionaca_CLowe_P1010363-1024x1022-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/ChimacumChumSurvey_Sep2013_Joe-Ionaca_CLowe_P1010363-1024x1022-1-396x395.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/ChimacumChumSurvey_Sep2013_Joe-Ionaca_CLowe_P1010363-1024x1022-1-792x790.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/ChimacumChumSurvey_Sep2013_Joe-Ionaca_CLowe_P1010363-1024x1022-1-198x198.jpg 198w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2025\/04\/ChimacumChumSurvey_Sep2013_Joe-Ionaca_CLowe_P1010363-1024x1022-1-768x767.jpg 768w\"\r\n\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\r\n\t\t\t\talt=\"Two fisherman doing a chum spawning survey.\"\r\n\t\t\t\tstyle=\"object-position: 50% 50%\"\r\n\t\t\t\t\/>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wsu-card__content\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"wsu-title \">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSpawning Survey\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wsu-caption\">\r\n\t\t\tBeach Watchers also help NOSC every year with summer chum spawning surveys in Chimacum Creek. Teams of volunteers walk the creek regularly over a 6-week period, counting live salmon, counting and measuring dead salmon and taking tissue samples for later testing.. Early counts indicate that this is a record year for returning salmon&#8211;volunteers counted over 1,250 live summer chum in one record-breaking day!<br><br>In past years, Beach Watchers also helped the Jefferson Conservation District with their coho spawner survey project. Volunteers walk local streams with Conservation District researchers.\u00a0A 4 person survey team of Water\/Beach Watchers measured the lower reaches of Chimicum Creek from November until February.\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/article>\n        <div id=\"cahnrs-back-to-top\" class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top\" hidden aria-hidden=\"true\">\n            <a id=\"cahnrs-back-to-top-btn\" class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__btn\" href=\"#product-top\" aria-label=\"Back to top\">\n                <span class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u2191<\/span>\n                <span class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__label\">Back to top<\/span>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coho and Chum: Smolt and Spawning Surveys Partnering with North Olympic Salmon Coalition and Jefferson Conservation District \u2191 Back to top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":149,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_expiration_date":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27757,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/27757"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}