Each spring, juvenile salmon known as smolts leave this central B.C. lake and migrate downstream through the Chilko, Chilcotin, and Fraser rivers and into the Salish Sea. (sciencedaily.com)
«We knew that on average 10 to 40 million smolts leave Chilko Lake every year and only about 1.5 million return as adults two years later,» said Nathan Furey, researcher and a PhD candidate in the faculty of forestry. (sciencedaily.com)
Then, with two years of Usk life in them, when they migrated downstream as silvery smolts, cormorants and pike intercepted them. (si.com)