They visit fish hatcheries as they are releasing
young salmon into the sea, researchers report.
Not exact matches
After shopping the vintage dishes and hotel silver at P.O.S.H. (that
salmon dome from the Chicago Athletic Club seemed like a good idea at the time), I checked
into my second hotel, the
younger - skewing James.
That translates
into rivers and streams that rise and fall more sharply and more often, making life harder for
young salmon that hatch and spend their first few months in freshwater before migrating to the ocean.
Today,
salmon hatcheries provide controlled environments where early developmental stages of the
salmon lifecycle are replicated within the confines of concrete walls; eggs are artificially fertilized and incubated in tubes and plastic bags, and
young salmon are raised in tanks before being released
into the wild.
Steelhead are more likely to bolt straight
into the ocean within a few hours, while the
youngest Chinook
salmon, less than a year old, are likely to go back and forth a bit for a few days before committing to ocean life.
But now that independent scientists have appraised the 2012 iron pulse, and millions of
young salmon that were at sea that summer are heading up streams, and
into nets, it's at least possible to begin assessing outcomes and lessons from this freelance effort at treating the open sea like a farmer's field — and a carbon safe - deposit box.
Earlier peak runoff sweeps
young salmon out of rivers
into estuaries when they are smaller, and more vulnerable to predators.2, 9,10
The BBC are reporting that 5,000 2 cm long
young salmon were released
into the Thames tributary, Lambourne river, recently.