Sentences with phrase «salmon runs»

2013 had the largest pink salmon run in 50 years.

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

Not much has been said about how the solo mode differs from the first game, not much has been said about salmon run either which is the main new multiplayer thing.

If too much is used by humans, there may not be enough to sustain salmon runs.

«There are three volcanic events in the last 100 years, and we had record sockeye salmon runs in those three volcanic dust events,» George says.

Governor Palin supports the Pebble Mine, upstream from the largest wild salmon runs on the planet.

I propose a Ten - Thousand Year Plan for the restoration of wild salmon runs in Puget Sound.

Russia has wild salmon runs also.

Poor salmon runs along British Columbia's central coast rain forest since 2003 have spurred scientists to gauge the fish's nutritional impact on grizzly bears

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.

Up to 200 Killer Whales (Orcas) follow the annual salmon runs that enter the area beginning in late June.

The Klamath River, flowing in Oregon and California, once supported the third - largest salmon run on the west coast.

View a slideshow on grizzly bears and salmon Humans aren't the only ones affected by poor salmon runs.

The film investigates collapsing Pacific salmon populations all down the Pacific Northwest and examines how biologists and engineers are trying to better manage the region's threatened salmon runs.

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.

As a result, seabirds starved and salmon runs declined.

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.

Set in the remote Alaskan Yukon Delta, follows Yup «ik fisherman Ray Waska as he teaches his grandkids how to fish during the summer salmon run.

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

Forest landowners investment in RMAP is a model for Cities to remove fish passage barriers and re-connect the stream system for healthy salmon runs.

Divers can book trips to the 54 - degree jade - colored lake, dropping 20 feet into the world's most concentrated salmon run.

This area hosts the largest pink salmon runs in Southeast Alaska, which attracts both brown and black bears and bald eagles.

I have spent my professional life toggling between working for environment and as a teacher, most recently helping to restore salmon runs in rural NW California.

In the case of decreased discharge in the western USA, by 2050 the Sacramento and Colorado River deltas could experience a dramatic increase in salinity and subsequent ecosystem disruption and, in the Columbia River system, managers will be faced with the choice of either spring and summer releases for salmon runs, or summer and autumn hydroelectric power production.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fishing the Neck Lake outlet silver salmon run is an experience every angler should have.

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.

Northwest Passage (1995) is an environmental and cultural history of the Columbia River inspired by its imperiled salmon runs and epic pioneer past.

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.

Each autumn, the world's most concentrated sockeye salmon run flows up Canada's 7.5 - mile - long Adams River in British Columbia.

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

I believe there is a second salmon run over the falls in September.

The Brooks River, for instance, is a popular place for a population of brown bears to visit in July and capitalize upon a river that sees an early salmon run.

Katmai protects some of the highest densities of bears in the world and Brooks River's salmon run attracts dozens of bears every year.

In the quiet days of August, however, Ted often remained, capitalizing on a river that lacked prodigious July salmon runs but still contained some available salmon - and there was little competition for them.But last year, no one saw 489 Ted.

Join us for Welcome Back Salmon at Muir Woods National Monument when the Coast Miwoks, the original inhabitants of the Redwood Creek Watershed, give their blessing for the coho salmon run.

And actually, the year I moved to Washington was the year the Orca's rarely showed up because of the bad salmon run.

Two decades ago, the country was deep in a debate over expanding oil drilling into new, environmentally sensitive areas: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Bristol Bay, which has Alaska's richest salmon runs.

We have similar effects - much hotter weather in the Northwest and ruined salmon runs - but the loggers and homebuilders have purchased our Congressmen.

In addition, she's working to prevent approval of a Bristol Bay mine that could threaten one of the most productive salmon runs in the world (fished by over 1,000 Washingtonians), and to secure resources to respond to the Japanese Tsunami debris that is beginning to wash up on Pacific shorelines.

Earthjustice attorney, on the benefits of managing water responsibly on California's California's Trinity River, which supports major salmon runs.

That's a promising start to a new phase of recovery for the Russian River's once prolific salmon runs — coho, Chinook salmon, steelhead trout and all.

Projects like those on the Penobscot River, where the river system is open once again to Atlantic salmon runs, shows promise for the species to recover.

I've written — been writing about this in relation to iron fertilization, efforts to pour iron dust into the sea and stimulate salmon runs and plankton growth.

Many of these farms» leases are coming up for tenure renewal this June, providing an opportunity for the government to begin a transition away from open net - pen farms to a more sustainable system that reduces the risks to wild salmon and hopefully puts many salmon runs on a path to recovery.