Sentences with phrase «young salmon streaming»

Young salmon streaming out of hatchery nets seem to fit the bill.

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«We know that chalk streams are very productive and juvenile salmon in these rivers generally migrate to sea after just one year, whereas young salmon in other river types typically leave freshwater at 2 - 3 years.

Much less is known about the start of this epic journey, when young salmon depart their freshwater streams for bigger waters.

That translates into rivers and streams that rise and fall more sharply and more often, making life harder for young salmon that hatch and spend their first few months in freshwater before migrating to the ocean.

Despite having no life experience, young salmon in the Pacific Northwest somehow travel hundreds or thousands of kilometers from their native streams to feed and grow in the ocean.

The Columbia River Basin once teemed with young salmon heading toward the ocean and mature salmon returning to their home rivers and streams to spawn.

Climate change will also increase precipitation and raise water temperatures, which could eliminate suitable spawning habitat for salmon and wash away their eggs and fry from spawning streams, killing the young.

But now that independent scientists have appraised the 2012 iron pulse, and millions of young salmon that were at sea that summer are heading up streams, and into nets, it's at least possible to begin assessing outcomes and lessons from this freelance effort at treating the open sea like a farmer's field — and a carbon safe - deposit box.