Sentences with word «smolt»
Each spring, juvenile salmon known as smolts leave this central B.C. lake and migrate downstream through the Chilko, Chilcotin, and Fraser rivers and into the Salish Sea.
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«We knew that on average 10 to 40 million smolts leave Chilko Lake every year and only about 1.5 million return as adults two years later,» said Nathan Furey, researcher and a PhD candidate in the faculty of forestry.
Then, with two years of Usk life in them, when they migrated downstream as silvery smolts, cormorants and pike intercepted them.
«Salmon smolts find safety in numbers: Researchers implant electronic tags to track journey of juvenile salmon.»
The Strait of Georgia is a crucial feeding ground for salmon, notably tiny smolts as they migrate out to the ocean.
Salmon fry bide their time waiting to become smolt and run to sea.
Smolt features an open, Scandinavian interior and serves up brunch, lunch, and dinner with an amazing wine selection.
Increasing egg to smolt survival will have drastic effects on salmon populations.
HiddenFjord is now incorporating Power Hub into a new warehouse at its smolt site.
As the smolts made the 1,000 - kilometre journey to the Pacific Ocean, acoustic receivers picked up the signals from the tags to monitor how many fish survived the migration.
More than 2,000 salmon were tracked over four years and researchers found that survival was poor in the clear and slow - moving Chilko River, where predators were feeding intensely on the smolts.
Post-smolt means the smolt of Atlantic salmon which have been transferred from fresh water to sea water.
«They eat the salmon eggs and smolt (the minnows) and grow mega-size,» he says.
Later in the year and soon after the smolt depart, much larger salmon are returning from the ocean.
On occasion biologists can be seen hard at work conducting fish surveys in Redwood Creek to monitor three crucial periods in the life cycle of coho salmon: junvenille, smolt, and adult.
Marble River chinook production targets are one million smolts, while coho targets are 200,000 fry and 50,000 smolts.
Smolt is also known for its fresh seafood sourced locally.
smolt a young salmon or sea trout about two years old that is at the stage of development when it assumes the silvery color of the adult and is ready to migrate to the sea