Sentences with phrase «salmon spawned»

Re-established creeks are amazingly resilient — in Burnaby, BC, the long - diverted Still Creek was re-established and today, salmon spawn in the creek.

Western forests are clear - cut, and eroding soil clogs salmon spawning areas.

In 2003, Werkhoven Dairy entered into discussions with the Tulalip tribe and the NW Chinook Salmon Recovery Program to figure out how to help preserve sensitive salmon spawning reaches in the nearby Skykomish River.

After the salmon spawn, this streambed will be as clean as a gravel driveway.

Then, once the salmon spawning ends, Dolly Varden shrink their guts and survive for the next year off their reserves in cool water because there is little else to eat in the rivers.

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.

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.

Early winter salmon spawning runs usually draw more consistent killer whale activity further south in the Salish Sea into Puget Sound and this year has been no different.

Among other cities pursuing the restoration of buried or concrete - lined waterways are Vancouver, which once had dozens of salmon spawning runs in streams within the city limits, and Los Angeles.

Because of the dams, many of the remaining salmon spawn in downstream tributaries, so they would be destroyed.

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.

What about the prime question for the fishing communities in the region: Did the iron supplement boost salmon spawning runs and harvests?

Half of the income generated for Shorebank from the card goes to «Salmon Nation» an economic, cultural and ecological community collective in the bioregion that contains Pacific salmon spawning grounds.

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..

Perhaps laying a 1,200 km, three foot round pipeline from Edmonton to Kitimat, that moves 250,000 gallons of raw tarsand oil a day across 600 creeks and rivers, including some where threatened salmon spawn, is not in the fundamental national interest.

There are plenty of human related activities which negatively impact oyster hatcheries, coral reefs, salmon spawning grounds, etc..

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.

The 731 - mile long Northern Gateway pipeline would cross several mountain ranges and more than 1,000 rivers and streams, many of which contain sensitive salmon spawning beds.

Not exact matches

About 35 years ago, power company employee had to stop water flowing into a river in Upstate New York, but, not knowing any better (kids deciding they don't need to know that»cause they'll never use it), the employees choose the two weeks that salmon swim upriver to spawn.

And the spawning run of smelts, which constitute the salmon's principal feed, was the largest since 1957.

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.

Thanks to the salmon's excellent jumping abilities, a number of animals can complete the arduous journey to the spawning area — only to end up in an area that is unfit for spawning.

The construction of water mills caused the destruction of the gravel beds in streams, making them unsuitable for salmon to spawn.

The research revealed that catching and releasing Atlantic salmon close to their spawning time did not harm their chances of reproduction.

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.

In Alaska, biologists are learning that when wild salmon are free to swim upstream to spawn, dozens of other species flourish too

In the twilight of their brief lives adult Pacific salmon migrate back to their river of birth to spawn, perpetuating a four - year life cycle that boomerangs thousands of kilometers into the ocean.

The salmon naturally expire after the Herculean effort of swimming upstream and spawning, but too many fish perishing prematurely before they've had a chance to lay eggs and fertilize them spells trouble.

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.

Chum salmon swim hundreds of miles upstream to spawn, and served as food for ancient as well as modern Alaskans.

BALTIMORE — The return of salmon, flashing red and silver as they struggle upstream to spawn, is a well - studied and celebrated event.

Ted Gresh, an environmental consultant in Portland, Oregon, estimates that during the historical runs in the Pacific Northwest, 500 million pounds of salmon returned to spawn and die each year.

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

Every summer, sockeye also spawn by the hundreds of thousands here, and an excess of salmon eggs is left floating in the rivers or collecting in clusters along the bank.

Then in 1837, a new dam barred salmon from most of their spawning beds and buried the river under a reservoir.

The next year, Paul Christman, a fisheries biologist with the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission, found proof that Atlantic salmon were spawning: He located six new gravel nests sheltering the bright red eggs of the Atlantic salmon as far as 18 miles upstream.

More studies are needed to know whether this is happening, though it's likely the trout wouldn't have access to the same abundance of salmon eggs, researchers said, because the spawning activity in Washington's rivers is much less than in Alaska.

Perhaps the hardest hit and most talked about salmon fishery in the world — California's Sacramento River Chinook run — has been off - limits to fishers for two years now because of the low volume of wild fish returning to spawn.

Sockeye salmon that sprint to spawning grounds through fast - moving waters may be at risk, suggests new research by University of British Columbia scientists.

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.

There, the bone fragments of large salmon, migrating from marine water to their freshwater spawning places, were found in the Middle Palaeolithic archaeological layers, dated to around 42 to 48,000 years ago, and probably deposited by Neandertals.

Like salmon, river herring return to spawn in the same river where they hatched.

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.