Emma Roche had a simple wish for her salmon fry, Josie, as she released her into the Willamette River.
“I wish my fish would have a good life and live all the way,” said the third grade student at Willagillespie Community School. “And not be eaten by any predators.”
Josie was one of thousands of Chinook salmon fry released in Eugene’s Alton Baker Park during the culmination of a two-month education in the life cycle of Oregon’s state fish…