DESCRIPTION
The Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group (SFEG) will correct the May fish barrier on EF Silver Creek, (local name), a tributary to Silver Creek, Friday Creek, Samish River in Skagit county. The culvert is considered a total barrier due to an 11% slope but fry were observed above the culvert. Correction of this barrier would improve access to 1.42 miles of habitat for coho, steelhead and searun cutthroat. SFEG conducted a habitat evaluation in the summer of 2012, documenting 2.3 miles of suitable habitat upstream. Several large pond/wetland complexs are also present up stream of the barrier, and would provide high quality rearing habitat for juvenile fish.
The Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group (SFEG) corrected the May fish barrier on EF Silver Creek, (local name), a tributary to Silver Creek, Friday Creek, Samish River in Skagit county. The culvert was considered a total barrier due to an 11% slope but fry were observed above the culvert. Correction of this barrier improved access to 1.42 miles of habitat for coho, steelhead and searun cutthroat. SFEG conducted a habitat evaluation in the summer of 2012, documenting 2.3 miles of suitable habitat upstream. Several large pond/wetland complexs are also present up stream of the barrier, and would provide high quality rearing habitat for juvenile fish. Numerous coho salmon were observed passing above the culvert to spawn follwing construction of the bridge in 2013.
