Sentences with phrase «at juvenile salmon»
«If they can't find the lanternfish they ate in the Sea of Cortez, they may look at juvenile salmon, as well as herring, sardines and other species that salmon may eat.
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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.
A biologist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is working on a project to tag juvenile chinook salmon at Big Creek with microchips that are scanned like supermarket bar codes when the little fish pass detectors in the stream.
Because juvenile salmon, or smolt, leave their freshwater spawning grounds to spend an average of two to three years maturing at sea, the boom in 2001 was right on schedule.
«We have shown that the proposed development area supports particularly high abundances of juvenile salmon from more than 40 populations that are harvested in at least 10 First Nations territories throughout the Skeena watershed and beyond.
Newly published research co-authored by scientists at Simon Fraser University and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation shows juvenile coho salmon benefit from dining on the distant remains of their spawning pink and chum cousins.
«These results are consistent with the idea that juvenile salmon imprint on (i.e. learn and remember) the magnetic signature of their home river, and then seek that same magnetic signature during their spawning migration,» said Nathan Putman, a post-doctoral researcher at Oregon State University and the lead author of the study.
Scientists at WSU and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service analyzed combinations of various pesticides to learn how they would affect juvenile salmon.
«You get juvenile Atlantics, they're not indigenous to the coast and they start competing with the wild salmon and they start putting the wild salmon at risk.