A just-hatched Chinook has been spotted in an Upper Klamath Lake tributary, the first time a young salmon has been observed there in over 100 years. It follows last year’s return of adult Chinook here for the first time in over a century following the removal of four dams on the Klamath River in far northern California and southern Oregon. … The baby Chinook was discovered via rotary screw traps operated by the tribes’ fisheries agency. … Officials said that around 10,000 adult-sized fish were counted this past fall at a sonar station below the former site of Iron Gate Dam, the lowest of the four dams on the Klamath. That figure was 30 percent higher than the previous fall, the first that fish could go past that point. 

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