In Focus: Pacific lamprey release

By Lee Gavin | The CUJ
June 5, 2026

On the left, Jerrid Weaskus, a lamprey program manager for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, reaches into a bucket for a Pacific lamprey as Jon Hess, right, a senior fisheries geneticist with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, assists him April 8, 2026, at Breitenbush River near Detroit Dam in Oregon. (Yasser Marte/The CUJ)

Pacific lampreys are released into Oregon’s Breitenbush River by tribal members and partners to restore declining populations and cultural harvest. (Lee Gavin/The CUJ)

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