{"id":22,"date":"2026-05-01T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/?p=22"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:52:10","slug":"grwb-s-t-e-p-proposes-increased-salmon-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"GRWB S.T.E.P. Proposes Increased Salmon Production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>GRWB S.T.E.P. Proposes Increased Salmon Production<\/strong> The Gardiner-Reedsport-Winchester Bay Salmon Trout Enhancement Program (S.T.E.P.) rears approximately 100,000 pre-smolt fall Chinook Salmon annually to provide a terminal sports fishery in the lower Umpqua River estuary. In their 2024-2028 Fish Propagation Plan application, they will request that ODFW designate them as a &#8220;no waste hatchery&#8221; and increase brood stock collection to 85 pairs of adult fall Chinook. This aims to offset an average 27% mortality loss and maintain their goal of producing 100,000 pre-smolt annually for local anglers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRWB S.T.E.P. Proposes Increased Salmon Production The Gardiner-Reedsport-Winchester Bay Salmon Trout Enhancement Program (S.T.E.P.) rears approximately 100,000 pre-smolt fall Chinook Salmon annually to provide a terminal sports fishery in the lower Umpqua River estuary. In their 2024-2028 Fish Propagation Plan application, they will request that ODFW designate them as a &#8220;no waste hatchery&#8221; and increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}