Still spawning

Every Tuesday is spent down at LEKT spawning steelhead native to the Elwha River. It is been a big success because we have many hundreds of hatched eggs. This means we are doing something right! The NOAA crew makes the trip up every week as well because we have implemented a little side study to see if par marks are heritable. The adults that we are spawning had their par marks counted when they were smolts along with a picture. The average number is around 8 but there are some with 11 so we are coducting some special matings to see if this is inheritible. It will be interesting to see in 5 months when we count par marks what we can deduct.