Articles written by Marie Melsheimer

Marie Melsheimer|Updated Sep 8, 2009

Records were set last month at the Bonneville Dam, on the Columbia River, when 18,671 steelhead were counted heading upriver on Tuesday, August 11. The next day the count skyrocketed to 28,314, and by Thursday counts had shattered another record, at 34,054 steelhead. In 71 years of fish counting at the Bonneville Dam, the previous record was "just" 14,432 fish in one day. A steelhead is a sea-run (anadromous) trout, which is the same species as the rainbow trout. The main difference is that this fish is born in fresh water,... Full story