Sentences with phrase «coho return»
As coho return to creeks to spawn, they develop a reddish coloring along the belly.
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For more than 10,000 years, migrating fishes — Atlantic, chinook, and coho salmon, American shad, blueback herring, and striped bass, to name a few — have returned in astonishing abundance to the great rivers up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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.
Endangered Coho Salmon Re-released into Redwood Creek at Muir Beach To give a boost to endangered coho salmon in the Redwood Creek Watershed, the California Department of Fish & Wildlife — and staff and volunteers from a handful of supporting agencies (including the Parks Conservancy)-- returned 106 hatchery - reared adult fish to the creek at Muir Beach on December 9.
These processes completely altered the creek's alignment, flow, and connection to the floodplain — and affected its ability to support the southernmost continually - returning natural population of the endangered coho salmon in western United States.
In the winter of 2009, scientists estimated that a total 45 adult coho salmon returned to the Redwood Creek spawning grounds.
The coho live the remainder of their lives at sea, returning to their birthplace only at the end of their life's arc in order to spawn, die, and restarting the life cycle once more.
Range: Although their range spreads up to northern Alaska, the southernmost continually - returning natural population of endangered coho is found in Redwood Creek, and is recognized as a reproductively isolated and distinct population.
To give a boost to endangered coho salmon in the Redwood Creek Watershed, the California Department of Fish & Wildlife — and staff and volunteers from a handful of supporting agencies (including the Parks Conservancy)-- returned 106 hatchery - reared adult fish to the creek at Muir Beach on December 8.