Preliminary data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows that the fall run of Chinook salmon returning to the Coleman Fish Hatchery, outside Anderson, is only about 60 percent of what it was last year.

Scott Hamelberg, the project leader, says about 8,000 returned this year.
Of those, about 5,000 were used during the spawning season.

Last year, about 14,000 returned to Battle Creek, with nearly 10,000 entering the hatchery.