Sentences with phrase «salmon out of rivers»

Earlier peak runoff sweeps young salmon out of rivers into estuaries when they are smaller, and more vulnerable to predators.2, 9,10

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i catch wild salmon straight out of the American River here in Sacramento at the Nimbus Dam... 15 - 30 pounders, and the fillets are the size of a book.

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.

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 Usk River Authority, and others like it in England and Wales, was set up by the Water Resources Act of 1963, and there were plenty of acts before that which made it quite clear that pulling out salmon, except with fully licensed rod and line, was distinctly illegal; but Si √ ¥ n Jones and his friends justify themselves on the basis of somewhat earlier legislation, instituted in the 10th century by an independent Prince of Wales, Hywel Dda («Howell the Good»).

Also, most salmon breed in a river and the resulting young find their way out to the oceans until they are of breeding age and somewhat miraculously return to the same river to again breed and die.

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.

It was that hour when the salmon - seekers up and down the river start asking themselves whether they should finish out the day where they are or bet on one last, hopeful change of beat.

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) reports that if temperatures continue to rise, by 2040 one out of five of the Pacific Northwest's rivers will be too hot for salmon, steelhead, and trout to survive.