Salmon hitch a ride to the sea

Salmon hitch a ride to the sea

California's dry winter left water levels in rivers so low that young salmon were unable to swim from inland hatcheries (where they were reared) to the ocean (where they will mature). So wildlife agencies decided to truck them to the sea instead. This emergency measure began in March with the d...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in ecology and the environment 2014-05, Vol.12 (4), p.205-205
1. Verfasser: Meadows, Robin
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Dispatches
Freshwater fishes
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Salmon
Salmon smolt
Seas
Wildlife
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Zusammenfassung:California's dry winter left water levels in rivers so low that young salmon were unable to swim from inland hatcheries (where they were reared) to the ocean (where they will mature). So wildlife agencies decided to truck them to the sea instead. This emergency measure began in March with the delivery of 2.5 million fallrun Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) smolts from a federal hatchery near Anderson to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a distance of almost 290 km.
ISSN:1540-9295
DOI:10.1890/1540-9295-12.4.204