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smolt

a young salmon at the stage when it migrates from fresh water to the sea
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Smolt transformation: evolution, behaviour, and physiology.
The relationship between smolt and postsmolt growth for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
This paper calls for the Council to defer to the biological expertise of regional fishery experts, as required by the Act,(30) and to adopt smolt travel time objectives.
The need for a smolt travel time objective in the Columbia River Basin fish and wildlife program to protect and restore the Northwest's imperiled salmon runs
The average condition factor for the fry-parr stages was 0.96; for the pre-smolt 1.03 and 0.76 for the smolt stage (Fig.
Size structure, age, and diets of introduced Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) inhabiting the Palena River, Chilean Patagonia
He does say that he can catch fish anywhere and he was proudly displaying a wee Smolt to prove his point.
Name that fish; RECORD ANGLING
2006: Long-term changes in the smolt size and age of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., in a northern Baltic river related to parr density, growth opportunity and postsmolt survival.
The effect of cormorant predation on newly established Atlantic salmon population
This capacity, in addition to its own smolt production, will enable GSF Rogaland to reduce sea production time down to 12 months.
Grieg Seafood Team Acquires Norwegian Post-Smolt Production Facility Tytlandsvik Aqua
The procedure for deploying PERs was 1) activation of GPS transponders/GoPro cameras (30 sec/PER), 2) attachment of the salmon smolt to predation timers (1 min/timer), 3) release of PERs (1 min/PER), 4) transit of PER through study site (45 min.
Development of underwater recorders to quantify predation of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in a river environment
A putative juvenile (recently metamorphosed) River Lamprey was collected at the John Day Dam smolt bypass facility on 28 May 2013 from a sample time frame of 13:00 to 07:00.
River Lamprey (Lampetra ayresii) outmigrant upstream of the John Day Dam in the mid-Columbia River
The coin, which features a salmon and smolt, is the work of designer Emmet Mullins and is a modern take on the 1928 floirin by Percy Metcalfe.
EUR46 for a EUR15 coin? Salmon's having a joke
mykiss smolt production in some California coastal streams where a lack of habitat complexity, low pool volumes, low food availability, and excessive water temperatures may all act to reduce rearing success (e.g., Harvey et al.
Colonization and persistence of a Southern California steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) population
8 February 2010 - Regin Jacobsen, CEO of leading Faroese farmed salmon producer Bakkafrost, expects the Faroese farming industry will harvest rather less quantities in 2010 as fewer smolt were put out into the sea in 2008 compared to 2007.
Less Faroese Farmed Salmon Expected in 2010
Among the stages of the trip are swim-up fry, stream predators, Wooley Creek Refuge, a smolt in the estuary, shark strike, salmon trollers, homing, and spawning.
Springer's quest; life of a Pacific Chinook salmon
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