Sentences with phrase «as smolts»
As the smolts made the 1,000 - kilometre journey to the Pacific Ocean, acoustic receivers picked up the signals from the tags to monitor how many fish survived the migration.
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Then, with two years of Usk life in them, when they migrated downstream as silvery smolts, cormorants and pike intercepted them.
«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.