Sentences with phrase «river sockeye salmon»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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).