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Final count expected Oct. 16
A summer chum leaps out of the water in a pen Monday on the Union River. The Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group has recorded 12,021 chum - a record - as of Monday.
Hood Canal summer chum have returned to the Union River in record-breaking numbers, with 12,021 as of Monday morning.
There are still three weeks left in the count.
"It is amazing," Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group Executive Director Mendy Harlow told the Journal.
The previous record of 11,916 in 2003 was due to hatchery supplementation, which ended that year, according to HCSEG.
Harlow credited this year's healthy run to improving ocean conditions and HCSEG's 2013 habitat restoration project on the Union River.
Juvenile chum rely heavily on estuary habitat, Harlow explained.
They leave riv...
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