The Lake Washington sockeye returns continue remain well under the preseason forecast, and now attention has shifted that the warm water temperatures on their pathway into the lake won’t affect survival.
Frank Urabeck, a member of the Cedar River Council and Seattle Pacific Utilities Adaptive Management Work Group, now believes that something will need to be done to ensure enough sockeye will survive to get to the river spawning beds.
“I intend to push the co-managers and Seattle Public Utilities to do everything possible to maximize the effective yield in terms of fry entering Lake Washington next spring so that three and four years later we have some adults returning for broodstock,” Urabeck said.