On an adult fish this may be only a nuisance, but for
small juvenile salmon (around the size of a finger), sea lice can be fatal.
Not exact matches
«There are
small pocket areas created through restoration that provide unique refuge for
juvenile salmon.»
They also eat some
small fish, including
juvenile salmon when they're available.
To follow the
juvenile salmon, researchers implanted
small electronic tags into the tiny 12 - centimetre fish as they were leaving Chilko Lake.
Juvenile salmon sampled off the Northwest Coast in 2017 were especially
small and scarce, suggesting that poor feeding conditions off the Columbia River Estuary may remain.