Sturgeon and Trout, Bonneville Fish Hatchery.įrom the Pacific States Marine Commission website (2006): Visitors can view sturgeon and trout through an underwater window as they swim in a natural environment. In 1998, the Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation along with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, built the Sturgeon Viewing and Interpretive Center at theīonneville Fish Hatchery. The Bonneville Fish Hatchery is located just downsteam of Bonneville Dam, and uses the waters of Tanner Creek. The scientific name for the White Surgeon is acipenser transmontanus acipenser being an old world name meaning sturgeon and transmontanus meaning beyond the mountains.īonneville Fish Hatchery and Sturgeon Viewing Center. Mature Sturgeon can reach 20 feet in length, weigh between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds, and can live for 100 years. It lives along the west coast of the United States between the Aleutian Islands to Central California, with the largest number being in the Columbia River Basin. The "White Sturgeon" is the largest freshwater fish in North America. Bonneville Fish Hatchery and Sturgeon Center. Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later"
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