: a young salmon or sea trout about two years old that is at the stage of development when it assumes the silvery color of the adult and is ready to migrate to the sea
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The Nez Perc Tribe, which co-manages the area’s salmon fishery with the ODFW, helped the department collect the dead smolts that didn’t make it into the water while also scanning for trackable tags and tallying the loss.
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Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 5 Apr. 2024
About 77,000 of the smolts made it into the water of Lookingglass Creek below—but 25,529 were not so lucky.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Of the approximately 102,000 spring Chinook smolts that spilled out of the 53-foot truck last week, more than 25,000 fish didn’t survive.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
According to the agency: The smolts lost represent about 20 percent of the total that will be released into the Imnaha River this year.
—Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
Hatchery officials want to release 1.25 million salmon fry, 1.75 million salmon smolts (slightly older fish) and 250,000 salmon yearlings this year.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
Those could include critical habit protections and expanding ways to protect king salmon smolt — among other measures the group lists.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
Common and red-breasted mergansers, also known as fish ducks, do indeed eat a wide variety of fish, including salmon smolts, trout, minnows, shad, and game fish.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 2 Nov. 2023
That’s because there are so many animals that prey on smolts.
—oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 5 Apr. 2024
About 77,000 of the smolts made it into the water of Lookingglass Creek below—but 25,529 were not so lucky.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Of the approximately 102,000 spring Chinook smolts that spilled out of the 53-foot truck last week, more than 25,000 fish didn’t survive.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
According to the agency: The smolts lost represent about 20 percent of the total that will be released into the Imnaha River this year.
—Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
Hatchery officials want to release 1.25 million salmon fry, 1.75 million salmon smolts (slightly older fish) and 250,000 salmon yearlings this year.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
Those could include critical habit protections and expanding ways to protect king salmon smolt — among other measures the group lists.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
Common and red-breasted mergansers, also known as fish ducks, do indeed eat a wide variety of fish, including salmon smolts, trout, minnows, shad, and game fish.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 2 Nov. 2023
That’s because there are so many animals that prey on smolts.
—oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
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