Road Trip — Coleman National Fish Hatchery

Posted by Karen on 05-Aug-2006

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Today Lisa and I headed north to start a week-long road trip to Oregon to see what there was to see.  After driving Interstate 5 for a couple of hours, we sidetracked off the main road to check out the Coleman National Fish Hatchery, which is the largest Chinook salmon hatchery in the lower United States.  The fish weren’t spawning on this day, but I bet it’s something to see when they are.  The salmon travel from the Pacific Ocean up the Sacramento River to here.  There were numerous fingerlings in the raceways and when the time is right, they will make the trip to the ocean and only a small percentage of them will survive.  There was absolutely nobody in sight, so we walked around and toured the hatchery on our own.  We had lunch and the nice picnic tables area and watched the various types of birds running around.