Shelly Davis, center, and Raynee Innes, right, transfer chinook and sockeye salmon from a large cooler into a giant plastic tote in the back of a truck after the Colville Reservation fishermen brought back more than a thousand fish to be shared with tribal members Wednesday, July 16, 2009 on the banks of the Okanagan River near its mouth on the Columbia. These are returning hatchery fish--wild fish were returned to the water to spawn--and will feed members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation from distribution points around the reservation. The tribal government is partnering with various agencies to build a new salmon hatchery nearby, below the Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia. JESSE TINSLEY jesset@spokesman.com
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