Sentences with phrase «river sockeye»

Sorry for the lack of citations, but I am only recalling what I was told when I was trying to understand why Fraser River sockeye were showing up much later than usual and similar in timing to El Nino years.

[41] Salmon runs of particular note are the Skeena and Nass river runs, and the most famous is the Fraser River sockeye run.

The large number of missing Fraser River sockeye in 2009 prompted a Canadian federal judicial inquiry into the matter, the Cohen Commission.

Led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a team of scientists tracked returning Fraser River sockeye to see whether the genetic activity of those that successfully spawned differed from the activity of those that perished prematurely en route.

Likewise, the Fraser River sockeye are met with sewage outflows from Vancouver at the river's mouth in the Strait of Georgia.

Not exact matches

Each year four - year - old sockeye swim up the Fraser River in a spectacular bid to return to the freshwater streams where they hatched four years earlier.

By midsummer, low stream flows and warm water had killed half the annual sockeye salmon breeding run in the Columbia River.

Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle's (U.W.) School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences think they know why Bristol Bay is so productive year after year: Several hundred discrete populations of sockeye salmon inhabit the network of rivers and lakes that empty into the bay, and this tremendous population diversity buffers the entire fishery against the vicissitudes of the environment.

And just to underscore how little scientists understood of the fish, the sockeye run in 2010 was a once - in - a-century bonanza, with 34 million fish flooding the river.

But the industrialized motif of North America's longest dam - free river belies a rare natural treasure: a sockeye salmon run with a historical average of eight million fish worth over $ 1 billion.

The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans also has to juggle an immense number of stakeholders and their needs when managing the Fraser sockeye: coastal fisheries with different gear types, the in - river First Nations harvest, and one of the largest recreational fisheries in Canada.

Dolly Varden trout, perhaps the lesser - known cousin of Alaska's famous sockeye salmon, are abundant in the relatively untouched Alec and Chignik rivers of the Alaska Peninsula.

Every summer, sockeye also spawn by the hundreds of thousands here, and an excess of salmon eggs is left floating in the rivers or collecting in clusters along the bank.

Not all of the Fraser River's salmon swim as far as the Chilko sockeye.

The Chilko sockeye may do okay, but the Weaver sockeye will likely have a much harder time surviving if the river continues to warm.

The Weaver sockeye, which spawns downstream of the river's big series of rapids, collapsed in water above 21 °C.

Another benefit of Kamchatka's isolation is protection for populations of chum, sockeye, chinook, coho and pink salmon, which return by the millions to spawn in Kamchatka's rivers.

In the fall, a million sockeye salmon journey up the river to spawn, and dozens of grizzly bears come to its banks to dine before winter.

Grizzlies flock to the park's Brooks River in summer to fish for sockeye salmon on their spawning run inland from the Bering Sea, a spectacle that humans can view and photograph from elevated wooden platforms.

They can be seen at Brooks River and even more so at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park catching sockeye salmon in June and July and silver salmon in late August and September.

Every four years, the Adams River run peaks, as millions of sockeyes crowd upstream between late - September and late - October.

Each autumn, the world's most concentrated sockeye salmon run flows up Canada's 7.5 - mile - long Adams River in British Columbia.

Fishing is a year - round passion in Campbell River, with anglers hooking Chinook salmon 12 months of the year and four other varieties — coho, pink, chum and sockeye — from May to November.

Guests fish for king salmon and silver salmon, and also catch chum, pink, and sockeye salmon, rainbow trout and Dolly Varden on Fishtale's Little Susitna River and Deshka River charter boat trips.

The first large waves of sockeye usually enter Brooks River in late June.

34,000,000 sockeye are swimming the cove on their way to the Fraser River.

Anglers — and foodies — know all about delicious Copper River red salmon, and sockeye, coho, and king salmon can be plucked from the braided Copper River every summer.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game carefully manages the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fishery to ensure that enough fish are allowed to escape the fishery and run up river to sustain the population.

Ted became a welcome sight for visitors and rangers alike — most bears leave the Brooks River by July's end, as the sleek sockeye migrate upriver into Lake Brooks.

The peak of the sockeye salmon run in the Naknek River watershed, which the Brooks River is part of, is in early July.

The Fraser River of Canada has runs at least four times larger, plus millions more of sockeye and other salmon species.

Why is the Tidal Fraser River not open for pink salmon when incidental by - catches of sockeye salmon are unheard of due to the specific fishing techniques being employed for pink salmon?

An example may be helpful: I was at a workshop regarding Late - run sockeye on the Fraser River where different research approaches were being discussed.

What emerged was a trend showing sockeye - salmon declines on the Fraser River were not unique and were happening on a wider scale and much farther north than originally anticipated.

In the US, the populations of sockeye salmon in Snake River (Idaho, Oregon and Washington area) and in Lake Ozette, Washington, are listed under the Endangered Species Act as endangered and threatened (respectively).