UW launches cutting-edge DNA 'fin-printing' project for salmon

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Sockeye salmon race up their native Alaskan stream to spawn. Being able to tell this population of salmon from others is the goal of an ambitious project funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to gather genetic information about Pacific salm ...
Sockeye salmon race up their native Alaskan stream to spawn. Being able to tell this population of salmon from others is the goal of an ambitious project, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, to gather genetic information about Pacific salmon and compile it into an international database. Credit: Thomas Quinn/University of Washington

Some salmon make one heck of a commute. The record holder in the Pacific Northwest, for example, is a steelhead that was tagged in the Clearwater River, Idaho, in April 2003. A year and a half later, it was caught off the southern Kuril Islands near Japan. The most direct route between those two points -- as the crow flies, as they say -- is 4,200 miles. Imagine fish that make it that far then turn around and travel back to their home streams in order to spawn.


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