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Archive Home > 2007 > June > 27 > A new rite of passage for fish hatchery

A new rite of passage for fish hatchery

The AutoFish System is a more efficient way to mark hatchery fish. It’s housed in a mobile trailer that can travel among Oregon’s hatcheries.

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
June 27, 2007

MARION FORKS — The salmon fry were sucked up a plastic tube, one by one. They traveled from a holding tank up a few feet to a device overhead, which sorted them by size before sending them shooting down one of six tubes, winding down like a mini water slide.

The tiny fish, most just a....

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