They visit fish hatcheries as they are
releasing young salmon into the sea, researchers report.
Not exact matches
Today,
salmon hatcheries provide controlled environments where early developmental stages of the
salmon lifecycle are replicated within the confines of concrete walls; eggs are artificially fertilized and incubated in tubes and plastic bags, and
young salmon are raised in tanks before being
released into the wild.
Hatcheries raise the
young salmon and
release them to the ocean.
This also may help explain a whale innovation: dining on
young salmon released by fish hatcheries.
Over six years, the team recorded whether whales were around before, during and after
young salmon were
released.
The BBC are reporting that 5,000 2 cm long
young salmon were
released into the Thames tributary, Lambourne river, recently.