Sentences with phrase «on spawning salmon»

Here you will have the opportunity to witness the behaviours of Grizzly Bears, such as feasting on spawning salmon in Canada's true wilderness.

Dozens of grizzly bears congregate in the company of bald eagles and black bears to feed on spawning salmon throughout the Bella Coola Valley.

Not exact matches

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.

Purely and simply he loves Atlantic salmon, and this was why, on this hard winter's afternoon, we were reconnoitering the hill streams, looking for the patches of white pebbles where the salmon had used their broad tails to carve out the spawning beds, looking for the vulnerable pools where the fish lie.

By the time Pacific salmon close in on their spawning grounds, they are senescent and naturally immunosuppressed.

Much as migrating birds or spawning insects rely on the timing of spring so that there is enough available food when they arrive in a given region, so, too, the salmon rely on the timing of phytoplankton blooms, followed by the zooplankton bloom that then feeds baby salmon.

«One of the most important findings of this study was the fact that salmon were already compromised before entering the river» on their journey home to spawn, she wrote.

It turns out the bears were on the hillsides, feeding on abundant red elderberries, which typically ripen after salmon have finished spawning in streams.

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.

After all, humans aren't like salmon, which spawn, age and die on a schedule.

The team also gathered data on seabird and fish populations that feed in the sea and then come onto land — like ocean - going salmon that move up rivers to defecate, spawn, and die.

«This is the first study to examine mate choice among wild - spawning fish of both hatchery and wild origin, and the results suggest that greater diversity of immune genes between wild - born pairs of coho salmon may increase offspring survival,» said Amelia Whitcomb, who did the research as a master's student at OSU and is lead author on the publication.

While juvenile coho salmon feed directly on spawning pink and chum salmon carcasses and eggs, even coho with no direct contact with spawning pink and chum benefit from their nutrient contributions to stream ecosystems.

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.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

Grizzlies flock to the park's Brooks River in summer to fish for sockeye salmon on their spawning run inland from the Bering Sea, a spectacle that humans can view and photograph from elevated wooden platforms.

Today, one of the primary purposes of Katmai National Park and Preserve, based on legislation, is to protect habitats for and populations of fish and wildlife, including, but not limited to, high concentrations of brown bears and their denning areas, and maintain unimpaired the watersheds and water habitat vital to red salmon spawning.

Our first stop was in the charming town of Ketchikan where we had the opportunity to watch salmon spawning on Creek Street.

Trails go in and out of the cool cover of the natural forest by the beach giving you the best possible hiking experience with beach and forest ground to cover a nice afternoon with can be spent with company out on the creek watching the salmon spawn at the right time of year or photographing the rare a beautiful flowers and mosses that line the rugged trails of Fillongley Provincial Park.

In August and September, pink and coho salmon on their way to spawn will join you in the river mouth.

Famous for salmon fishing, a «fish ladder» on the dammed river helps the salmon to swim upstream to spawn.

Kodiak Island is home to the largest grizzly bears in the world, and this small group trip offers fabulous opportunities to view them gorging on the salmon that swim up the rivers to spawn.

Attracted to the spawning salmon the bears may be seen ascending from the forest and fishing for salmon on the river's shores!

Every fall, black bears emerge from the forests, drawn to estuaries and river edges to feast on spawning Pacific salmon.

LIVE actually partners with Salmon Safe, which is an organization that focuses on certifying ecologically sound watershed management to help native salmon spawn and thrive.

So from the conservationist point of view, the proposed legislation cuts the acreage protected from logging by 1/2, not to mention that the logging regime on the other half would be very intense and detrimental to salmon spawning habitat as well as forest species, etc etc..

On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it had authorized state officials in Oregon and Washington to «lethally remove» a population of sea lions which for years have congregated just below the Bonneville Dam, about 150 miles from the Pacific Ocean, and gorged on salmon migrating upriver to spawOn Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it had authorized state officials in Oregon and Washington to «lethally remove» a population of sea lions which for years have congregated just below the Bonneville Dam, about 150 miles from the Pacific Ocean, and gorged on salmon migrating upriver to spawon salmon migrating upriver to spawn.

As the climate of the Pacific Northwest warms, more winter precipitation is falling as rain, compared with historical averages.2 With declining snowpack in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, peak stream flows are occurring earlier, and summer flows are declining.2 These changes are expected to continue as heat - trapping emissions grow, putting more stress on already endangered salmon that return to the Columbia and other rivers in the region to spawn.2

On the undammed Sandy, salmon and steelhead will soon have renewed access to over 100 miles of their historic spawning grounds.

This year, two runners will accompany the salmon — running 120 miles along the Snake river over the course of two days in an effort to highlight the limited access the fish now have to their historical spawning grounds.Luke Nelson and Ty Draney — one a member of the US Ski Team and the other a seasoned ultramarathon runner — will begin in the Frank Church / River of No Return Wilderness on September 30 with a plan to cover 75 miles in the first day.

Based on estimates of the number of salmon returning to sea at the end of the spawning season, scientists think that the salmon are disappearing in the ocean, not the river.

And as the market slows down further in the sunset of 1994, those hangers - on, faced with the reality of a very successful shift of expenses from the broker to the salesperson, will not be noble like the salmon and spawn before they die, they will just turn belly up and smell.»