ARED

ARED, Inc.

Alaska Resource & Economic Development, Inc.

Supporting Healthy Sustainable Economies

Brief Introduction Wild Salmon Restoration Initiative

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ARED’s Salmon Restoration Initiative facilitates strategies for assisting in restoration of wild salmon.

We have developed an effective methodology and supporting technologies for these restoration efforts.

Nature provides “extra” eggs to compensate for early stages of high mortality in the life-cycle of the salmon. Wild salmon runs can be enhanced by enabling survival of a greater number of these eggs from salmon returning from the ocean to spawn.

In times of decreased survival and threatened sustainability, we can assist the salmon by helping increase survival of those available eggs while preserving the integrity of the salmon's complete life-cycle.

This is accomplished by intercepting the adult salmon as they are returning to their natal watersheds to spawn. We collect and fertilize the eggs and protect them during the most delicate stages of their early development through use of our Portable Moist Air Incubation System. This provides high survival rates with no chemical use.

When the eggs reach a stage of resiliency they are planted into their stream of origin (before they hatch) using our egg planting technology.

This technology has been successfully employed in Alaska to reintroduce and restore wild salmon to their natural river systems.

By utilizing those extra eggs that nature provides, we increase the yield of emerging wild salmon from their natural spawning grounds. The salmon hatch in their natural environment and continue their life-cycle.

Using the natural fecundity of wild salmon and supporting their natural processes, we maintain attentiveness to their complex ecosystem and genetic patterns of behavior.

This initiative researches, compiles and develops methodologies and technologies to support community-based stewardship efforts. We blend this approach with current disciplines in partnership with resource managers to promote sustainable wild salmon runs in our rivers and oceans.

Please click on the links, above the title of this page to learn details about this project. We can be contacted at: aredinfo@ared.org