News tagged with chinook salmon
Salmon migration mystery explored on Idaho's Clearwater River
(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 ...
Nov 15, 2009 |
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Researchers improve zebrafish cloning methods
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.
Aug 30, 2009 |
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Feds vote to halt Calif. chinook salmon fishing
(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.
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Hatchery fish mask the decline of wild salmon populations
Scientists have found that only about ten percent of the fall-run Chinook salmon spawning in California's Mokelumne River are naturally produced wild salmon. A massive influx of hatchery-raised fish that return to spawn in ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Protecting predator and prey when both are in trouble
When both a predator and its prey are conservationally at risk, it can be difficult to find the right balance of ecosystem management to sustain and protect both.
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Warming streams could be the end for salmon
Warming streams could spell the end of spring-run Chinook salmon in California by the end of the century, according to a study by scientists at UC Davis, the Stockholm Environment Institute and the National ...
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Scientist urges government ruling on genetically engineered salmon
A Purdue University scientist is urging federal officials to decide whether genetically engineered salmon would be allowed for U.S. consumption and arguing that not doing so may set back scientific efforts to increase food ...
Aug 06, 2011 |
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Regulation blocking genetically engineered food animal development, report finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- A cumbersome and time-consuming federal regulatory process is stifling commercial investment in the development of genetically engineered animals for food and has serious long-term implications ...
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Researcher shows fishing has reduced salmon size in Alaska
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neala Kendall, a graduate student from the University of Washington in Seattle, after studying cannery data on sockeye salmon harvested from Bristol Bay in Alaska, has discovered that the ...
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Millions needed to return salmon to California river
Reviving chinook salmon on the San Joaquin River will cost more than $20 million - which may sound like a lot of money for 40,000 fish. But this rare project will take years of work, scientists say.
Mar 03, 2011 |
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A small fish caught in a big fuss
When Peter Moyle began studying an obscure little Northern California fish in the early 1970s, he had no inkling of the role it would come to play in the state.
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Wild rainbow trout critical to health of steelhead populations
Genetic research is showing that healthy steelhead runs in Pacific Northwest streams can depend heavily on the productivity of their stay-at-home counterparts, rainbow trout.
Jan 31, 2011 |
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California looks for a way to save the delta, quench residents' thirst
A drilling rig bit into the bed of California's biggest river, hauling up sage-green tubes of clay and sand the consistency of uncooked fudge.
Nov 29, 2010 |
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