Sentences with phrase «salmon spawning grounds»

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

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.

Not exact matches

By the time Pacific salmon close in on their spawning grounds, they are senescent and naturally immunosuppressed.

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.

«We found that freshwater acidification affects pink salmon and may impact their ability to survive and ultimately return to their freshwater spawning grounds.»

[29] Reproduction in the sockeye salmon has to be accomplished with the energy stores brought to the spawning grounds.

Heavy use of this road caused erosion and deposited sediment in Redwood Creek — damaging the spawning grounds of the endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout.

In the winter of 2009, scientists estimated that a total 45 adult coho salmon returned to the Redwood Creek spawning grounds.

In 1978, through presidential proclamation, President Carter expanded Katmai National Monument by 1.3 million acres to protect «a viable gene pool population of the Alaska brown bear... headwaters of the drainages which provide the spawning grounds for red salmon... and the unique subsistence culture of the local residents.

Sockeye salmon carcasses litter the shores of spawning grounds.

Jimmy Carter In 1978, through presidential proclamation, President Carter expanded Katmai National Monument by 1.3 million acres to protect «a viable gene pool population of the Alaska brown bear... headwaters of the drainages which provide the spawning grounds for red salmon... and the unique subsistence culture of the local residents.

The Campbell River has crystal clear water that provides a unique opportunity to snorkel with thousands of salmon as they swim up - river in search of their spawning grounds.

Home to five different species of salmon, the river is most prolific in summer when thousands of salmon complete a four year quest, returning from the ocean to swim upstream against the current, returning to their spawning grounds.

Dams like the Grand Coulee Dam, 551 feet high, blocked — and continue to block - salmon passage back to their spawning grounds.

On the undammed Sandy, salmon and steelhead will soon have renewed access to over 100 miles of their historic spawning grounds.

Every year salmon swim up the Snake river, struggling over 900 miles and up 7,000 vertical feet to their spawning grounds — the highest in the world and among the most important in North America.