A population of anadromous sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) may have occurred historically above Iron Gate Dam.
Parties coming in from Keno state that the run of salmon in the Klamath River this year is the heaviest it has [sic] ever known. There are millions of the fish below the falls near Keno, and it is said that a man with a gaff could easily land a hundred of the salmon in an…
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Eulachon were never in the Kalamath River. This specific fish was present in the lower Columbia/Cowlitz and all tributaries open to the ocean north to Alaska.
Eulachon | NOAA Fisheries https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/eulachon