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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 30 > Weir science

Weir science

Fish traps on spawning tributaries are designed to help wild steelhead in the Lower Deschutes Fish traps on spawning tributaries are designed to help wild steelhead in the Lower Deschutes

By Mark Morical / The Bulletin
April 30, 2009

MAUPIN — Leif Rinearson is surrounded by PVC pipes and an aluminum box as steelhead, trout and suckers swim unseen down around the feet of his waders in the cold stream.

Rinearson is here on Buck Hollow Creek seven days a week, sorting fish that have swum into the weir, a construction....

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