Sentences with phrase «spawning salmon in»

Here you will have the opportunity to witness the behaviours of Grizzly Bears, such as feasting on spawning salmon in Canada's true wilderness.

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.

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

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 RiveIn 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 Rivein the nearby Skykomish River.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Even as the effects of the Blob and El Nino dissipate, the central and southern parts of the West Coast face low snow pack and potential drought in 2018 that could put salmon at continued risk as they migrate back up rivers to spawn.

In 2004, for example, 80 % of some salmon populations died of heat stress before reaching their spawning destinations.

Juvenile salmon that enter the ocean this year amid the gradually improving conditions will not return from the ocean to spawn in the Columbia and other rivers for another two years or more, so fishermen should not expect adult salmon numbers to improve much until then.

THE three - year drought threatens to wipe out the last of the Muir Woods coho salmon that make their way each year from the Pacific to spawn in a freshwater creek running through the redwoods near San Francisco

Another benefit of Kamchatka's isolation is protection for populations of chum, sockeye, chinook, coho and pink salmon, which return by the millions to spawn in Kamchatka's rivers.

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

With the prolificacy of traditional publishing, and indie publishing (an unending tsunami of content in Bob's words), being published today is akin to the lone salmon going downstream against the horny hoards during spawning season.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

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 fall, a million sockeye salmon journey up the river to spawn, and dozens of grizzly bears come to its banks to dine before winter.

By temporarily raising wild salmon in captivity and then releasing them to spawn, the project attempts to circumvent this mortality rate — while minimizing interference with Mother Nature's processes.

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

Grizzlies flock to the park's Brooks River in summer to fish for sockeye salmon on their spawning run inland from the Bering Sea, a spectacle that humans can view and photograph from elevated wooden platforms.

Due to the island's many freshwater lakes and streams that feed into the protected island channels — and therefore prime spawning locations — it is here where sport fishermen from around the world flock for some of the best salmon fishing in the world.

The summer and fall months often bring harbourseals, stellar sea lions, and California sea lions in search of spawning salmon and herring.

Dozens of grizzly bears congregate in the company of bald eagles and black bears to feed on spawning salmon throughout the Bella Coola Valley.

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.

In August and September, pink and coho salmon on their way to spawn will join you in the river moutIn August and September, pink and coho salmon on their way to spawn will join you in the river moutin the river mouth.

Several salmon species spawn in the streams along our kayak trip route, affording amazing views of one of nature's most exciting spectacles.

Kodiak Island is home to the largest grizzly bears in the world, and this small group trip offers fabulous opportunities to view them gorging on the salmon that swim up the rivers to spawn.

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.

Even though salmon stage in Brooks River in August before they spawn, they are not easy to catch until they begin to spawn and die.

After they spawn in late summer and fall, Katmai's sockeye salmon begin to die.

This dilemma is part of what facilitates the bears» use of spawned out salmon in September.

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.