FORKS, Wash. (AP) — The state Fish and Wildlife Department plans to destroy about 250,000 winter steelhead eggs at the Bogachiel (BOH’-guh-sheel) Hatchery because of a fish virus, called IHN.
Regional manager Ron Warren says the virus was recently discovered in returning adult steelhead, and the eggs will be destroyed as a precaution.
To help make up for the loss, about 130,000 steelhead eggs will be transferred from a Makah Tribe hatchery to the Bogachiel hatchery near Forks.