Sentences with phrase «of salmon runs»

How then do you explain comments of the fur traders or the oral tradition of the west coast people that speak of failures of the salmon runs with descriptions that indicate they're related to weather changes?

Dam removal, which would open 350 miles of historic salmon habitat, is critical to the restoration of the salmon runs.

Learn about the importance of salmon runs and how critical the protection of salmon habitat is from the Charters River Interpretive Centre and demonstration hatchery.

Similarly, the establishment of legal fishing seasons can affect the timing of salmon runs by selectively killing late or early migrants.

Last July, bear 775 «Lefty» arrived at Brooks Falls for the first time during the beginning of the salmon run.

Not exact matches

I have been looking forward to it all summer... apparently this salmon only runs for a short amount of time, according to the guy at the fish counter.

Salmon has been a staple of John Nagle Co., harkening back to the days of the wild Atlantic runs and when Russell introduced fresh wild Pacific salmon to consumers on the East Coast.

I served my salmon with buttered pasta and steamed broccoli with parmesan, letting the juices from the packet run into the rest of the plate, imparting the pasta and vegetables with the flavors and lemon and brown butter.

The use of reef nets allows us to selectively harvest from these abundant runs without harming depressed stocks of Chinook and coho salmon.

When we reached the top by the shining granite walls of the road cut through the mountain, a huge sunburst illuminated the peak of Mount Brandon, and laid out before us were the dark tarns that held trout and the gleaming thread of the Cloghane River, where the salmon and white trout ran 3,000 feet below.

And the spawning run of smelts, which constitute the salmon's principal feed, was the largest since 1957.

The locals really wanted them to enjoy their week and come back, so one of the fishing guides quietly hooked a salmon and played with the fish for a while, letting it run with the line until it was exhausted.

One winter's night a band of horsemen rode into Rhayader, ran the foreigners out of town, throwing those who resisted into the river, and then proceeded to the salmon pools.

The Greenland fishery, the salmon disease that started in Ireland in 1963 and has now spread to the rivers of Scotland and North Wales, with pollution and water abstraction, will kill the run in the end.

Atlantic salmon at the end of their spawning run are the bravest, most beautiful fish in the world when they come into the river with the violet sheen on their silver flanks.

He despised the new sort, the gangs who worked the big river in low - water summer conditions, driving up from the industrial cities of south Wales, putting on scuba suits to drive salmon and sea - run trout into fixed trammel nets, or using cyanide bombs to suffocate the fish and send them drifting downstream to a collection point.

A 15 - pound hen salmon carries between four and five pounds of eggs, the chief ingredient in a special compound that the Welsh call «jam,» a paste of salted salmon roe that is so deadly for brown and sea - run trout that it is illegal everywhere in Britain.

When I have to eat lunch on the run, I feast on a package of smoked salmon.

In the end, there was plenty of chicken and salmon left over (the items I had been worried about running out of) and the roasted asparagus and carrots were long gone.

The removal of two dams on the Elwha River will help restore once - abundant salmon runs.

«Bristol Bay is home to the world's largest runs of sockeye salmon with returns averaging 37.5 million annually and having been as high as 60 million.»

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.

He runs his hands over the skin of an iced locally caught king salmon that will be dinner tonight for family and friends in nearby Palo Alto.Wild salmon has an aroma all its own that appears to arise from a particular diet, notes McGee.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — For the crowd of mostly baby boomers, who'd just finished their healthy lunch of salmon fillet on a bed of grains and vegetables, the warning could not have been more dire: You're running out of time.

Ted Gresh, an environmental consultant in Portland, Oregon, estimates that during the historical runs in the Pacific Northwest, 500 million pounds of salmon returned to spawn and die each year.

HEILTSUK TRADITIONAL TERRITORY, British Columbia — Diminishing wild salmon runs along British Columbia's central coast have raised concerns in the past several years about the fate of the region's grizzly bears.

The species maintained OSP levels even when small numbers of adult males were being removed to protect salmon runs in the Columbia River and climate events were depressing growth.

But others suggest that the health of some of the region's salmon populations — such as bountiful pink salmon off of Oregon and Washington and still thriving Alaskan runs — shows that with proper management we may be able to retain lively populations of both wild salmon and fishers.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reports that 2009's Columbia River Coho salmon run, numbering some 700,000 fish, was the biggest since 2001.

Perhaps the hardest hit and most talked about salmon fishery in the world — California's Sacramento River Chinook run — has been off - limits to fishers for two years now because of the low volume of wild fish returning to spawn.

West coast salmon runs have been in decline for decades, stemming largely from the damming of rivers and the pollution throughout the fish's extensive range from freshwater mountain streams to deep offshore ocean currents.

Despite advisories against consuming the creek's fish because of high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the EPA says the area attracts roughly 15,000 anglers each year, particularly those flyfishing during fall salmon runs.

Eighteen Mile Creek, a meandering, lush stream in Niagara County known for its salmon and trout runs, is one of 43 highly contaminated sites that were designated «Great Lakes Areas of Concern» more than 20 years ago as part of a water - quality pact between the U.S. and Canada.

Salmon Spotting Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon A wild run of spring chinook salmon make their annual 300 - mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to the Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery in central Oregon, arriving each spring and summer.

THE three - year drought threatens to wipe out the last of the Muir Woods coho salmon that make their way each year from the Pacific to spawn in a freshwater creek running through the redwoods near San Francisco

Pink and chum salmon runs along province's central coast haven't been doing so hot in recent years either, which raises questions about the long - term welfare of coastal grizzlies that feast on them.

Next, he and his colleagues will run stable isotope analyses on the hair to estimate of just how much salmon the bear consumed during the previous year's salmon run.

Dan Nichols was hauling in a gillnet laden with the fruits of a late - season Alaskan salmon run when something heavy flopped out of it, then slid to the front of his boat.

Wash and dry the salmon with paper towels Run your hands over the salmon and feel for any bones; if found, pull out with your fingertips or with a pair of clean, needle - nose pliers.

If you know you're days are running long, schedule deliveries of healthy options like a steak salad with chicory and curried chickpeas, salmon cakes with beet salad or cheesy pork enchiladas with avocado.

He had never used chopsticks so spent a good five minutes chasing the food around the plate with running commentary as he tried to stab a slice of salmon sashimi.

Killing all the salmon just so you can run your fucking iPod every second of your life.»

The Quality of Life Task Force: four sweatshirts in a bogus taxi set up on the corner of Clinton Street alongside the Williamsburg Bridge off - ramp to profile the incoming salmon run; their mantra: Dope, guns, overtime; their motto: Everyone's got something to lose.

Chicken and salmon are a great source of protein for dogs, and can be a healthy substitute for dog food if you run out.

Chicken meal, steamed oats, fresh free - run chicken, peas, brown rice, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and rosemary), fresh de-boned salmon, chicken liver, fresh whole eggs, sun - cured alfalfa, salmon oil, pumpkin, chicken cartilage (natural source of glucosamine and chondroitin), red delicious apples, carrots, turnip greens, cranberries, Saskatoon berries, organic sea vegetables (kelp, bladderwrack, dulse), burdock root, marshmallow root, juniper berries, fenugreek, sweet fennel, angelica root, sea buckthorn, chicory root, stinging nettle, red raspberry leaf, milk thistle, peppermint leaf, marigold flowers, chamomile flowers, lactobacillus acidophilus, enterococcus faecium.

While the rivers of Port Alberni and Bamfield see incredible Sockeye salmon runs — a fly fisherman's dream — the west coast of Vancouver Island is a hotspot for chinook and coho salmon fishing, as well as halibut fishing and ling cod.

Over 80 percent of high - value wild salmon species originate from its waters, and millions of them run up the state's rivers and creeks each summer.

The region offers world class fishing with seasonal runs of salmon and steelhead.

Whether taking surfing lessons from an experienced instructor, booking a charter fishing trip during seasonal runs of steelhead and salmon, hiking in our local rainforest or golfing the oldest course in Oregon, the Oregon coast offers year - round recreation for miles of beach.

Each year, several bears new to Brooks Camp visit the area to take advantage of the plentiful salmon run.