Sentences with phrase «salmon habitat in»

The mine proposed at the headwaters of Bristol Bay is projected to be the largest in North America, generating billions of tons of mine waste and industrializing important salmon habitat in the heart of the world's last great wild sockeye salmon fishery.

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His team does this to prevent overfishing and ruining the natural salmon habitat, and this way each fisherman only harvests a particular number of fish so as to ensure that the ecosystem remains in healthy balance.

Industrialization in the Northeast has seriously impacted the Atlantic salmon's habitat, and most Atlantic salmon now comes from inland fish farms.

For example, some fish, like salmon, build their nests only in gravel of a certain size, he notes, and so, «as rivers are increasingly being restored for fish habitat, it is important to know what slopes and flow depths will preserve a particular size of gravel on the riverbed.»

Big Creek and the upper tributaries of the Middle Fork provide the best spawning habitat remaining in Idaho for the severely depleted Pacific salmon.

Spawning habitat seems to be optimal in parts of the Frank Church Wilderness, and if these conditions can be described and quantified, they might be offered as a prescription for ailing salmon elsewhere.

Pacific salmon, flowering plants in North America and algae in the Mediterranean have all been documented as having moved farther north to find conditions closer to their former habitats.

Opponents say the dam is unnecessary, will block the migration of salmon and destroy the habitats of clams, in turn wrecking a unique haven for birds and aquatic life.

Even though contamination with mercury, pesticides, and persistent organic pollutants (POPS) has become a widespread problem in salmon habitats and has often compromised the quality of salmon itself, there are still some good alternatives for wild - caught salmon including species caught near New Zealand, Norway, and the West Coast of the United States (including Alaska).

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.

This project will also enhance and expand habitat for the southernmost continually - returning natural population of endangered Coho salmon in the western United States that is on the brink of extinction.

The goal of the project — begun in 2009 and estimated to take four years to complete — is to make the creek a functional, self - sustaining ecosystem once again by realigning the creek; restoring wetlands, an intermittent tidal lagoon, and dunes; and also creating and maintaining habitat for sustainable populations of the endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout.

But the Coho in Muir Wood??? s Redwood Creek are endangered, and local biologists and volunteers are working to protect the salmon and restore their habitat.

Over a dozen rivers and creeks in the Sooke area can benefit greatly from restoring and rehabilitating the salmon habitat.

The redwoods in Muir Woods provide ideal Coho Salmon habitat, providing woody debris to protect young salmon in the creeks and keeping them shaded and cool.

Installing a bridge would reduce sediment disturbance, preserve important habitats, and protect endangered and threatened species, like the coho salmon, in addition to providing hikers a safe and dry passage across the creek.

The interpretive gallery features aquaria, a fun - filled habitat display, and information on challenges to salmon survival in freshwater and ocean environments.

Now that we humans have destroyed the majority of salmon spawning habitat, prey numbers are so low in some years that killer whales have starved and been unable to give birth.

For the rod and line fisherman, great opportunities exist to land a decent fish from the shores of Anderson Inlet the most southerly mangrove habitat in Australia which provides an excellent environment for trevally, flathead, pinkie snapper, mullet, salmon, tailor, whiting and gummy shark.

Watch American brown bears in their natural habitat, feasting on salmon and wild berries and grasses, wandering over streams and fields, etc..

«In the Columbia Basin, the science and research we have regarding climate change and climate effects on salmon, suggests that we desperately need to find ways to let salmon access some of the better habitats in the Columbia basin — that is, the cooler water, the welcoming headwaters,» Charles Hudson, intergovernmental affairs director for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, told TreeHuggeIn the Columbia Basin, the science and research we have regarding climate change and climate effects on salmon, suggests that we desperately need to find ways to let salmon access some of the better habitats in the Columbia basin — that is, the cooler water, the welcoming headwaters,» Charles Hudson, intergovernmental affairs director for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, told TreeHuggein the Columbia basin — that is, the cooler water, the welcoming headwaters,» Charles Hudson, intergovernmental affairs director for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, told TreeHugger.

In what the military refers to as Alaska's «premier» joint training exercise, Alaskan Command aims to conduct «Northern Edge» over 8,429 nautical miles, which include critical habitat for all five wild Alaskan salmon species and 377 other species of marine life.

The more water that flows out of the mountains earlier, the more likely that reservoir capacity may not meet competing demands for hydropower and stream flow to support salmon.11 Lower water levels and warmer water temperatures in summer degrade stream habitat for salmon in the Northwest.

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.1in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.1in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.1In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.1in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.1in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.1in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.1in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

That river - restoration project is slated to begin in 2020, a decade after American Rivers signed historic agreements to remove four dams and restore access to more than 350 miles of salmon habitat on the Klamath River.

Their way of life was drastically altered when a series of four hydropower dams built between 1908 and 1962 cut off hundreds of miles of salmon spawning and rearing habitat in the Klamath's upper drainage.

Dam removal will improve water quality and open access to hundreds of miles of habitat for endangered salmon and steelhead, ideally resolving lingering disputes over water in the basin and providing greater economic security for fishing, tribal, and agricultural communities.

To protect owl and salmon habitats, the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan reduced timber production on national forests in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California by more than 80 percent, resulting in mill closures and job losses that were particularly hard on rural areas with no other industry.

Fitzpatrick is a long - time member of the 60 - year - old MSA river conservation association and she works tirelessly in its goals to preserve and enhance the wild Atlantic salmon and protect the habitat of the Miramichi watershed.