: 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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Time-release implants in the smolts dispensed two drugs from these classes: clobazam and tramadol.
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
The water stored between 20 and 22 feet helps supplement Lake Washington Ship Canal inflows during the summer/fall drawdown period, supporting lock operations, salinity drains, smolt flumes and the fish ladder facility.
—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025
That last detail was crucial for the truck's cargo: some 102,000 spring Chinook smolts, or young salmon, that had been raised in a hatchery.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
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.
—Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 5 Apr. 2024
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
The water stored between 20 and 22 feet helps supplement Lake Washington Ship Canal inflows during the summer/fall drawdown period, supporting lock operations, salinity drains, smolt flumes and the fish ladder facility.
—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025
That last detail was crucial for the truck's cargo: some 102,000 spring Chinook smolts, or young salmon, that had been raised in a hatchery.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
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.
—Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 5 Apr. 2024
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“Smolt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smolt. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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