Redd Zone Supplies a Complete Salmon Hatchery in 40-Foot Container
After a career of over 30 years in the non-profit hatchery movement in Alaska and Oregon, Tod Jones was looking forward to retirement—until he had a “eureka” moment in 2019 while visiting a salmon hatchery near Hood Canal in northwest Washington.
He had been invited by members of the Skokomish tribe to advise them on ways to improve their output of around a million salmon eggs per year, but found there was very little room for expansion: the hatchery was built into a steep slope above a creek that provided a reliable supply of gravity-fed water.
“That was where I first had the idea of prefabricating a complete hatchery in a 40-foot shipping container,” he told me when I stopped by his workshop on the east side of Astoria, Oregon.
Surrounded by containers, incubation boxes and pipes, ...