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Salmon migration mystery explored on Idaho's Clearwater River
Nov 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Temperature differences and slow-moving water at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in Idaho might delay the migration of threatened juvenile salmon and allow them to grow larger ...
Researchers improve zebrafish cloning methods
Aug 30, 2009 |
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A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a new, more efficient way of cloning zebra fish, a breakthrough that could have implications for human health research.
Feds vote to halt Calif. chinook salmon fishing
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- California's commercial chinook salmon fishing season will be called off again after a record low number of fish returned to spawn last year, federal fisheries managers announced Wednesday.
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Salmon fishing season at risk in Calif.
Mar 13, 2008 |
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U.S. officials are considering canceling the 2008 salmon fishing season in California and Oregon because of a dramatic decline in salmon population.
Unfavorable ocean conditions likely cause of low 2007 salmon returns along West Coast
Mar 03, 2008 |
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NOAA scientists are reviewing unusual environmental conditions in the Pacific Ocean as the likely culprit for the dramatically low returns of Chinook and coho salmon to rivers and streams along the West Coast of the United ...
Feds release Calif. plan to protect chinook salmon
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal fisheries regulators on Thursday released a court-ordered plan to help struggling chinook salmon that includes opening California dams and restricting pumping, which would reduce the amount of water available ...
Norway may halt salmon fishing season
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Norwegian wildlife management officials said stocks of wild salmon have dropped so low they may have to halt the salmon fishing season.
Dramatic declines in wild salmon populations are associated with exposure to farmed salmon
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Feb 12, 2008 |
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Since the late 1970s, salmon aquaculture has grown into a global industry, producing over 1 million tons of salmon per year. However, this solution to globally declining fish stocks has come under increasing ...
New paper examines dams' effects on California salmon
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Sep 24, 2007 |
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Spring-run Chinook salmon and other fish in the rivers of California’s Central Valley could be harmed by more water-storage dams, according to researchers at Duke University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The secretive immune system of the salmon
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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During his doctoral thesis, Erlend Haugarvoll discovered new aspects of the salmon immune system. His research looked at the immune cells in the gills of salmon and at immune responses to vaccination. A special ...
Baby salmon sharks dying a strange death
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Aug 12, 2007 |
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Researchers are trying to figure out why baby salmon sharks are washing up dead on central California beaches.
Hatchery fish outnumber wild chinook salmon in troubled fall run
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Apr 03, 2008 |
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A recent study indicates that wild salmon may account for just 10 percent of California's fall-run chinook salmon population, while the vast majority of the fish come from hatcheries. The findings are especially troubling ...
Climate change endangering U.S. salmon
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Jan 07, 2008 |
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Salmon in the Columbia River and other U.S. streams could face an uncertain future if global temperatures continue to warm, experts say.
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